9 Wisdom^[a] has built her house;
she has hewn out her seven pillars.
² She has prepared her food,^[b]
    she has spiced^[c] her wine,
        and she also has set her dining table.
³ She has sent out her young women,
    while calling out from the heights of the city,
⁴ “Let whoever is naïve, turn in here.”
    To anyone lacking sense, she says,
⁵ “Come! Eat my food,
    and drink the wine that I have mixed.
⁶ Leave your naïve ways, and live.
    Walk in the path of understanding.”

⁷ Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult,^[d]
    and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.
⁸ Don’t rebuke a mocker or he will hate you.
    Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.
⁹ Counsel a wise man,
    and he will be wiser still;
teach a righteous man,
    and he will add to his learning.

¹³ The foolish woman is loud,
    undisciplined, and without knowledge.
¹⁴ She sits at the entrance of her house,
    on a seat high above the city.
¹⁵ She calls out to those passing by on the road,
    who are minding their own business,^[f]
16 “Whoever is naïve, turn in here!”
    And to anyone lacking sense, she says,
¹⁷ “Stolen waters are sweet,
    and food eaten in secret is delicious.”
¹⁸ But he does not realize that the dead lurk there,
    and her invited guests wind up in the depths of Sheol.^[g]