Proverbs 9

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Proverbs 9 New International Version (NIV)

Invitations of Wisdom and Folly

9.1-2

9 Wisdom has built her house;
she has set up^[a] its seven pillars.
² She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine;
she has also set her table.
³ She has sent out her servants, and she calls
from the highest point of the city,
⁴     “Let all who are simple come to my house!”
To those who have no sense she says,
⁵     “Come, eat my food
and drink the wine I have mixed.

9.6

⁶ Leave your simple ways and you will live;
walk in the way of insight.”

⁷ Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults;
whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.
⁸ Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you;
rebuke the wise and they will love you.

9.7-9

⁹ Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still;
teach the righteous and…