Wisdom has built a palace supported on seven pillars,
2 and has prepared a great banquet, and mixed the wines,
3 and sent out her maidens inviting all to come. She
calls out from the busiest intersections in the city,
4 “Come, you simple ones without good judgment;
5 come to wisdom’s banquet and drink the wines I have
mixed.
6 Leave behind your foolishness and begin to live; learn
how to be wise.”
7,8 If you rebuke a mocker, you will only get a smart
retort; yes he will snarl at you. So don’t bother with him; he will only hate
you for trying to help him. But a wise man, when rebuked, will love you all the
more.
9 Teach a wise man and he will be the wiser; teach a good
man and he will learn more.
10 For reverence and fear of GOD are basic to
all wisdom. Knowing GOD results in every other kind of understanding.
11 “I, Wisdom, will make the hours of your day more
profitable and the years of your life more fruitful.”
12 Wisdom is its own reward and if you scorn her, you
hurt only yourself.
13 A prostitute is loud and brash and never has enough of
lust and shame.
14 She sits at the door of her house or stands at the
street corners of the city,
15 whispering to men going by and to those minding their
own business.
16 “Come home with me,” she urges simpletons.
17 “Stolen melons are the sweetest; stolen apples taste
the best!”
18 But they don’t realize that her former guests are now
citizens of hell.
Text: Children's Living Bible, Tyndale House Publishing 1972
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