Proverbs 9:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵‘Come, eat of my bread
and drink of the wine I have mixed.
⁶Lay aside immaturity,^[a] and live,
and walk in the way of insight.’

General Maxims

⁷Whoever corrects a scoffer wins abuse;
whoever rebukes the wicked gets hurt.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 9:6 Or simpleness

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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