ULT PRO Chapter 9

9 Wisdom has built her house;

she has hewn out her seven pillars.

2 She has slaughtered her slaughter, she has mixed her wine,

also she has arranged her table.

3 She has sent out her young women,

she calls out on the tops of the heights of the city.

4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn aside here,”

she says to him lacking of heart.

5 “Come, eat my bread,

and drink the wine I have mixed.

6 Forsake naive things and live;

and stride on the way of understanding.

7 The instructor of a mocker receives disgrace for himself,

and the rebuker of a wicked one, his injury.

8 Do not rebuke a mocker, lest he hate you;

rebuke a wise one and he will love you.

9 Give to a wise one and he will become more wise;

inform a righteous one, and he will increase learning.

10 The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Yahweh

and knowledge of holy things is understanding.

11 For by me your days will increase,

and years of life will be added to you.

12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,

and if you mock, you alone will bear it.”

13 The woman of stupidity is loud,

naive, and she does not know anything.

14 And she sits at the opening of her house,

on a seat by the heights of the city,

15 to call to those who pass over the way,

the ones going straight on their paths.

16 “Whoever is naive, let him turn aside here!”

And she says to him, the lacking of heart,

17 “Stolen waters are sweet,

and bread of secrecies is pleasant.”

18 And he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there;

in the depths of Sheol are her called ones.