Prov 9
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Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars.
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She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine in a bowl, and prepared her table.
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She has sent forth her servants, calling with a loud proclamation to the feast, saying,
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Whoso is foolish, let him turn aside to me: and to them that want understanding she
says,
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Come, eat of my bread, and drink wine which I have mingled for you.
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Leave folly, that you may reign for ever; and seek Alex. +’that you may live wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.
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He who reproves evil men shall get dishonour to himself; and he who rebukes an ungodly
man shall disgrace himself.
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Rebuke not evil men, lest they should hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love
you.
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Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and
he will receive more instruction.
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The fear of the Lord is the Or, summit beginning of wisdom, and the counsel of saints is understanding: (9:10AA) for to know
the law is the character of a sound mind.
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For in this way you shall live long, and years of your life shall be added to you.
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Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbours; and
if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. Hebrew—to beginning of verse 13(9:12AA) He who stays himself upon
falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will
pursue birds in their fight: (9:12BA) for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of
his own husbandry to go astray; (9:12CA) and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers
barrenness with his hands.
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A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel.
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She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets,
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calling to passers by, and to those that are going right on their ways;
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saying, Whoso is most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those
that want prudence, saying,
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Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.
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But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. (9:18AA) But hasten away, delay not in the
place, neither fix your eye upon her: (9:18BA) for thus shall you go through strange water; (9:18CA) but do you abstain from
strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain, (9:18DA) that you may live long, and years of life may be added to you.