9 Wisdom has ^(A)built her house,
She has hewn out her seven pillars;
^2 (B)She has slaughtered her meat,
^(C)She has mixed her wine,
She has also ^[a]furnished her table.
³ She has sent out her maidens,
She cries out from the highest places of the city,
⁴ “Whoever^(D) is simple, let him turn in here!”
As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
⁵ “Come,^(E) eat of my bread
And drink of the wine I have mixed.
⁶ Forsake foolishness and live,
And go in the way of understanding.

¹⁶ “Whoever^(A) is ^[a]simple, let him turn in here”;
And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
¹⁷ “Stolen^(B) water is sweet,
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
¹⁸ But he does not know that ^(C)the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of ^[b]hell.

¹⁵ And ^(A)wine that makes glad the heart of man,
Oil to make his face shine,
And bread which strengthens man’s heart.