Proverbs 9:1-6

New International Version

Invitations of Wisdom and Folly

9 Wisdom has built^(A) her house;
    she has set up^[a] its seven pillars.
²She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine;^(B)
    she has also set her table.^(C)
³She has sent out her servants, and she calls^(D)
    from the highest point of the city,^(E)
⁴    “Let all who are simple^(F) come to my house!”
To those who have no sense^(G) she says,
⁵    “Come,^(H) eat my food
    and drink the wine I have mixed.^(I)
⁶Leave your simple ways and you will live;^(J)
    walk in the way of insight.”^(K)

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Proverbs 9:1 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew has hewn out

Proverbs 9:13-18

New International Version

¹³Folly is an unruly woman;^(A)
    she is simple and knows nothing.^(B)
¹⁴She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the highest point of the city,^(C)
¹⁵calling out^(D) 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^(E) she says,
¹⁷    “Stolen water is sweet;
    food eaten in secret is delicious!^(F)”
¹⁸But little do they know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.^(G)