(A)“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
    (B)To him who lacks sense she says,
“Come, (C)eat of my bread
    and (D)drink of (E)the wine I have mixed.
Leave (F)your simple ways,[a] and (G)live,
    (H)and walk in the way of insight.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:6 Or Leave the company of the simple

16 (A)“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
    And to him who lacks sense she says,
17 (B)“Stolen water is sweet,
    and (C)bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
18 But he does not know (D)that the dead[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:18 Hebrew Rephaim

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