## Wisdom and Foolishness Call out 

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Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; 

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She has slaughtered her cattle, she has mixed her wine; She has also prepared her table; 

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She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the tops of the heights of the city: 

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"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks a heart _of wisdom_ she says, 

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"Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. 

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Forsake _your_ simplicity and live, And step into the way of understanding." 

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He who disciplines a scoffer receives disgrace for himself, And he who reproves a wicked man _receives_ injury for himself. 

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Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you, Reprove a wise man and he will love you. 

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Give _knowledge_ to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Make a righteous man know _it_ and he will increase _his_ learning. 

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The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 

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For by me your days will become many, And years of life will be added to you. 

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If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, And if you scoff, you alone will bear it. 

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The woman of foolishness is boisterous, _A woman of_ simplicity, and does not know anything. 

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She sits at the doorway of her house, On a seat by the high places of the city, 

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To call to those who pass by _that_ way, Who are making their paths straight: 

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"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here," And to him who lacks a heart _of wisdom_ she says, 

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"Stolen water is sweet; And bread _eaten_ in secret is pleasant." 

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But he does not know that the dead are there, _That_ those she called are in the depths of Sheol.