1. Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:
2. She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also furnished her table.
3. She has sent forth her maidens: she cries upon the highest places of the city,
4. Whosoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that lacks understanding, she says to him,
5. Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.
6. Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
7. He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury.
8. Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.