Proverbs 9 - King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

¹ Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars;

² she has slaughtered her slaughter; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

³ She has sent out her maidens; she cries on the heights of the city;

⁴ One who is of simplicity, turn in here; one lacking heart, she says to him,

⁵ Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine I have mixed.

⁶ Forsake simplicity, and live, and go straight in the way of understanding.

⁷ He rebuking one scorning takes shame for himself, and one reproving a wicked one has his own blemish.

⁸ Do not reprove one scorning, lest he hate you; reprove a wise one, and he will love you.

⁹ Give to a wise one, and he will be more wise; cause a just one to know and he will add to learning.

¹⁰ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy Ones is understanding.

¹¹ For by Me your days shall increase and shall be added to you the years of life.

¹² If you are wise, you shall be wise for yourself, but if you scorn, you alone shall bear it.

¹³ A woman of foolishness is noisy; one of simplicity, and she knows not what.

¹⁴ And she sits at the door of her house, in a seat in the high places of the city,

¹⁵ to call those passing in the way, who are going straight on their paths:

¹⁶ One of simplicity turn aside here. And to the one lacking heart, she says to him:

¹⁷ Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

¹⁸ But he does not know that the departed spirits are there; In the depths of Sheol are her called ones.