¹Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out her seven pillars.

²She has slaughtered her beasts, she has mixed her wine, she has also arranged her table.

³She has sent out her girls; she calls on the elevated heights of the town:

⁴Who is naive? Let him turn aside hither. To the one lacking heart she says:

⁵Come, feed on my food and drink the wine I have mixed.

⁶Forsake the simple and live, and go straight on in the way of understanding.

⁷One who admonishes a mocker takes for himself shame, and one who reproves a wicked person, his blemish.

⁸Do not reprove a mocker, lest he hate you; reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

⁹Give to a wise person, and he will grow wiser still; make known to a righteous person, and he will add to his learning.

¹⁰The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Yahweh, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.

¹¹For by me your days will increase, and years of life will be added to you.

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

¹³The woman of stupidity is boisterous; she is naive and knows nothing.

¹⁴She sits at the doorway of her house, on a throne on the heights of the town,

¹⁵to call out to those who pass by on the road, those who make their paths straight:

¹⁶Who is naive? Let him turn aside hither. And to the one lacking heart she says:

¹⁷Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.

¹⁸And he does not know that the shades are there, that her invited ones are in the depths of Sheol.