Proverbs 9- 1
- Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars.
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- She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
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- She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city.
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- "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment.
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- "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed.
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- Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.
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- "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
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- Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
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- Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning.
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- "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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- For through me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.
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- If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer."
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- The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge.
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- She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
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- calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way.
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- "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment.
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- "Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!"
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- But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave. [1]
- [18] Hebrew Sheol