Proverbs 9:1-13

¹It is as though wisdom is a woman who has built a big house for herself, and has set up seven columns to support the roof,

²and has slaughtered an animal and cooked the meat, and has mixed nice spices in the wine, and has put the food on the table.

³It is as though then she sent out her servant women to call out from the highest place in the town,

⁴“You people who need to understand more, come in!” And to those who are ignorant, it is as though she calls out,

⁵“Come and eat the food that I have prepared, and drink the good wine that I have mixed!

⁶◄Leave/Go away from► other foolish people, and if you do that, you will continue to live. Walk on the road that will enable you to ◄have knowledge/know what is true and what is not true►.”

⁷If you rebuke someone who will not allow others to correct him, he will insult you. If you reprove/scold an evil man, he will hurt you.

⁸Do not rebuke someone who will not allow others to ◄correct him/tell him what he has done is wrong►, because he will hate you for doing that. But if you rebuke a wise person, he will respect you.

⁹If you give instruction to wise people, they will become wiser. And if you teach righteous people, they will learn more.

¹⁰If you want to be wise, you must start by revering Yahweh, and if you know God, the Holy One, you will understand which teachings are wise/true.

¹¹If you become wise, you will live many years DOU.

¹²If you are wise, you are the one who will benefit from it; if you ridicule becoming wise, you are the one who will suffer.

¹³Foolish women talk loudly; they are ignorant and are never ashamed of the wrong things that they do.