1<\/sup>Wisdom has built a house for herself. She has hewn seven columns.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>She has immolated her victims. She has mixed her wine and set forth her table.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>She has sent her maids to call out to the tower and to the fortified walls of the city,<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>“If anyone is little, let him come to me.” And to the unwise, she has said:<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>“Approach. Eat my bread, and drink the wine that I have mixed for you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Whoever teaches a mocker causes injury to himself. And whoever argues with the impious produces a blemish on himself.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Do not be willing to argue with a mocker, lest he hate you. Dispute with the wise, and he will love you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Present an opportunity to the wise, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he will hurry to receive it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holiness is prudence.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For by me, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>If you would be wise, you will be so for yourself. But if you would be one who ridicules, you alone shall carry the evil.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>sat at the entrance of her house on a seat, in a high place of the city,<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>so as to call to those who were passing by the way and continuing on their journey:<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>“Whoever is little, let him turn aside to me.” And to the frenzied, she said,<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>“Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>And he did not know that giants are there, and that her companions are in the depths of Hell.<\/span> <\/p>\n