Proverbs 9

²She has prepared her meat.

³She has sent out her maidens.

⁴“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”

⁵“Come, eat some of my bread,

⁶Leave your simple ways, and live.

⁷One who corrects a mocker invites insult.

⁸Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you.

⁹Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser.

¹⁰The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.

¹¹For by me your days will be multiplied.

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

¹³The foolish woman is loud,

¹⁴She sits at the door of her house,

¹⁵to call to those who pass by,

¹⁶“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.”

¹⁷“Stolen water is sweet.

¹⁸But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,