9:1 Chokmah (wisdom) has builded her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars:
9:2 She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table.
9:3 She has sent forth her maidens: she cries upon the highest places of the city,
9:4 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wants understanding, she saith to him,
9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.
9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
9:7 He that reproves a scorner gets to himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked [man gets] himself a blot.
9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
9:9 Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
9:10 The Yirat (fear) YHVH (יהוה) [is] the beginning of chokmah (wisdom): and the knowledge of the kedoshim [is] understanding.
9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
9:12 If you be wise, you shall be wise for yourself: but [if] you scorns, you alone shall bear [it].
9:13 A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knows nothing.
9:14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
9:16 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wants understanding, she saith to him,
9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
9:18 But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.