Proverbs 9:5-16

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.

¹⁴They sit at the doors of their houses or they sit on the top of the hills in the town,

¹⁵and they call out to the men who are passing by, who are trying to be concerned with their own affairs,

¹⁶“You people who need to understand more, come into my house!” And to those who are ignorant, they call out,