Proverbs 9:1-13

¹Wisdom builded an house to himself; he hewed out seven pillars,

²he offered his slain sacrifices, he meddled or mingled wine, and setted or set forth his table.

³He sent his handmaids, that they should call to the tower; and to the walls of the city.

⁴If any man is little in wit, come he to me. And wisdom spake to unwise men,

⁵Come ye, eat ye my bread; and drink ye the wine, which I have meddled or mingled to you.

⁶Forsake ye young childhood, and live ye; and go ye by the way of prudence.

⁷He that teacheth a scorner, doeth wrong to himself; and he that reproveth a wicked man, engendereth a wem to himself.

⁸Do not thou reprove a scorner; lest he hate thee. Reprove thou a wise man; and he shall love thee.

⁹Give thou occasion to a wise man; and wisdom shall be increased to him. Teach thou a just or rightwise man; and he shall hasten to take it.

¹⁰The beginning of wisdom is the dread of the Lord; and prudence is the knowing of saints.

¹¹For thy days shall be multiplied by me; and the years of life shall be increased to thee.

¹²If thou art wise, thou shalt be wise to thyself, and to thy neighbours. Forsooth if thou art a scorner, thou alone shalt bear evil.

¹³A fond or foolish woman, and full of cry, and full of unleaveful lusts, and that knoweth nothing utterly,