Proverbs 9

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Wisdom has built a house for herself. She has hewn seven columns.	1 Wisdom has built herself a house, she has hewn her seven pil ars,
2 She has immolated her victims. She has mixed her wine and set forth her table.	2 she has slaughtered her beasts, drawn her wine, she has laid her table.
3 She has sent her maids to call out to the tower and to the fortified walls of the city,	3 She has despatched her maidservants and proclaimed from the heights above the city,
4 “If anyone is little, let him come to me.” And to the unwise, she has said:	4 'Who is simple? Let him come this way.' To the fool she says,
5 “Approach. Eat my bread, and drink the wine that I have mixed for you.	5 'Come and eat my bread, drink the wine which I have drawn!
6 Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence.”	6 Leave foolishness behind and you wil live, go forwards in the ways of perception.'
7 Whoever teaches a mocker causes injury to himself. And whoever argues with the impious produces a blemish on himself.	7 Reprove a mocker and you attract contempt, rebuke the wicked and you attract dishonour.
8 Do not be willing to argue with a mocker, lest he hate you. Dispute with the wise, and he will love you.	8 Do not rebuke the mocker, he wil hate you. Rebuke the wise and he wil love you for it.
9 Present an opportunity to the wise, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he will hurry to receive it.	9 Be open with the wise, he grows wiser stil , teach the upright, he wil gain yet more.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holiness is prudence.	10 The first principle of wisdom is the fear of Yahweh, What God's holy ones know -- this isunderstanding.
11 For by me, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.	11 For by me your days wil be multiplied, and your years of life increased.
12 If you would be wise, you will be so for yourself. But if you would be one who ridicules, you alone shall carry the evil.	12 Are you wise? You are wise to your own good. A mocker? The burden is yours alone.
13 A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,	13 A silly woman acts on impulse, is foolish and knows nothing.
14 sat at the entrance of her house on a seat, in a high place of the city,	14 She sits at the door of her house, on a throne high up in the city,
15 so as to call to those who were passing by the way and continuing on their journey:	15 cal ing to the passers-by, who are walking straight past on their way,
16 “Whoever is little, let him turn aside to me.” And to the frenzied, she said,	16 'Who is simple? Turn aside, come over here.' To the fool she says,
17 “Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant.”	17 'Stolen waters are sweet, and bread tastes better when eaten in secret.'
18 And he did not know that giants are there, and that her companions are in the depths of Hell.	18 But the fool does not know that this is where the Shades are and that her guests are already in thevales of Sheol.