Proverbs

¹WISDOM HAS built her house; she has hewn out and set up her seven [perfect number of] pillars. ²She has killed her beasts, she has mixed her [spiritual] wine; she has also set her table. [Matt. 22:2-4.] ³She has sent out her maids to cry from the highest places of the town: ⁴Whoever is simple (easily led astray and wavering), let him turn in here! As for him who lacks understanding, [God's] Wisdom says to him, ⁵Come, eat of my bread and drink of the [spiritual] wine which I have mixed. [Isa. 55:1; John 6:27.] ⁶Leave off, simple ones [forsake the foolish and simpleminded] and live! And walk in the way of insight and understanding. ⁷He who rebukes a scorner heaps upon himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man gets for himself bruises.