⁷ Fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge;
    wisdom and instruction, fools despise.

²² “How long,^[a] O simple ones, will you love simplicity?
    And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing,
    and fools hate knowledge?

³² for the waywardness of the simple ones will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

⁵ Learn prudence, O simple ones;
    fools, learn intelligence.^[a]

¹³ A woman of foolishness is loud,
    simple, and does not know it.^[a]
14 She sits at the door of her house,
    upon a throne at the high places of town,
¹⁵ in order to call to those who pass by the road,
    those who go straight on their way:
¹⁶ “Whoever is simple, may he turn here!”
    As for he who lacks sense,^[b] she says to him,
¹⁷ “Stolen waters are sweet,
    and bread of secrecy is pleasant.”
¹⁸ But he does not know that the dead^[c] are there,
    in the depths of Sheol^[d] are her guests.

⁸ A heart of wisdom will heed commandments,
    but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

¹⁸ He who conceals hatred has lips of deceit,
    and he who utters slander—he is a fool.

²³ It is like a sport for a fool to do wrong,
    wisdom for a person of understanding.

²⁹ He who brings trouble to his household, he will inherit wind,^[a]
    and a fool will serve the wise of heart.

¹⁵ The way of a fool is upright in his own eyes,
    but he who listens to advice is wise.
¹⁶ As for a fool, on that very day^[a] he makes his anger known,
    but he who ignores an insult is prudent.