11 For through wisdom[a] your days will be many,
    and years will be added to your life.
12 If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you;
    if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.

13 Folly is an unruly woman;
    she is simple and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the highest point of the city,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:11 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew me