Wisdom’s Banquet

• she has hewn her seven pillars.
• 2 She has slaughtered her slaughtering, mixed her wine, and also set her table.
• 3 She has sent her servant girls,[fn] she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,
• 4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn here.” As for the one who lacks sense ,[fn] she says to him,
• 5 “Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed.
• 6 Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding.”
• 7 He who corrects a scoffer gains abuse for himself, and he who rebukes the wicked gets hurt .[fn]
• 8 Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke the wise and he will love you.
• 9 Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; teach[fn] a righteous one and he will increase learning.