1 - Wisdom has built her house; she has set up
2 - She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
3 - She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city,
4 - "Let all who are simple come to my house!" To those who have no sense she says,
5 - "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed.
6 - Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight."
7 - Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.
8 - Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
9 - Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.
10 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 - For through wisdom
12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
13 - Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.
14 - She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
15 - calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way,
16 - "Let all who are simple come to my house!" To those who have no sense she says,
17 - "Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!"
18 - But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.