Proverbs 9:12-18

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself;
    if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

¹³ The foolish woman is loud;
    she is ignorant and knows nothing.
¹⁴ She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the high places of the town,
¹⁵ calling to those who pass by,
    who are going straight on their way,
¹⁶ “You who are simple, turn in here!”
    And to those without sense she says,
¹⁷ “Stolen water is sweet,
    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
¹⁸ But they do not know that the dead^[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.