11 For thy days shall be multiplied by me, and the years of thy life shall be augmented.

12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for [a]thyself, and if thou be a scorner, thou alone shalt suffer.

13 ¶ A [b]foolish woman is troublesome; she is ignorant and knoweth nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:12 Thou shalt have the chief profit and commodity thereof.
  2. Proverbs 9:13 By the foolish woman, some understand the wicked preachers, who counterfeit the word of God: as appeareth verse 16, which were the words of the true preachers, as verse 4, but their doctrine is but as stolen waters: meaning, that they are but men’s traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh than the word of God, and therefore they themselves boast thereof.

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