Proverbs 9

² She has prepared her food, she has spiced her wine, and she also has set her dining table.

² She has ^(a)(B)prepared her food, she has ^(C)mixed her wine;She has also ^(D)set her table;

² She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

² She has prepared her meat;^(B) she has mixed her wine;^(C)she has also set her table.^(D)

² She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine;She has also set her table.^(A)

⁴ "Let whoever is naive, turn in here." To anyone lacking sense, she says,

⁴ “^(H)Whoever is ^(b)naive, let him turn in here!”To him who ^(I)lacks ^(c)understanding she says,

⁴ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

⁴ “Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!”To the one who lacks sense,^(G) she says,

⁴ “Whoever is naive or inexperienced, let him turn in here!”As for him who lacks understanding, she says,

⁶ Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

⁶ “^(d)Forsake your folly and ^(K)live,And ^(L)proceed in the way of understanding.”

⁶ Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

⁶ Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;pursue the way of understanding.

⁶ “Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live,And walk in the way of insight and understanding.”

⁸ Don't rebuke a mocker or he will hate you. Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

^{8 (N)}Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you,^(O)Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁸ Don’t rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you;^(I)rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.^(J)

^{8 (a)}Do not correct a scoffer [who foolishly ridicules and takes no responsibility for his error] or he will hate you;Correct a wise man [who learns from his error], and he will love you.^(C)

¹⁰ The fear of the LORD is where wisdom begins, and knowing holiness demonstrates understanding.

¹⁰ The ^(Q)fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

¹⁰ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

¹⁰ “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,^(L)and the knowledge of the Holy One^(M) is understanding.

¹⁰ The [reverent] fear of the Lord [that is, worshiping Him and regarding Him as truly awesome] is the beginning and the preeminent part of wisdom [its starting point and its essence],And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding and spiritual insight.

¹² If you are wise, your wisdom will assist you. If you mock, you alone will be held responsible.

¹² If you are wise, you are wise ^(S)for yourself,And if you ^(T)scoff, you alone will bear it.

¹² If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;^(N)if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

¹² If you are wise, you are wise for yourself [for your own benefit];If you scoff [thoughtlessly ridicule and disdain], you alone will pay the penalty.

¹⁴ She sits at the entrance of her house, on a seat high above the city.

¹⁴ She sits at the doorway of her house,On a seat by ^(W)the high places of the city,

¹⁴ For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

¹⁴ She sits by the doorway of her house,on a seat at the highest point of the city,

¹⁴ She sits at the doorway of her house,On a seat by the high and conspicuous places of the city,

¹⁶ "Whoever is naive, turn in here!" And to anyone lacking sense, she says,

¹⁶ “^(X)Whoever is ^(h)naive, let him turn in here,”And to him who lacks ⁽ⁱ⁾understanding she says,

¹⁶ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

¹⁶ “Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!”To the one who lacks sense, she says,

¹⁶ “Whoever is naive or inexperienced, let him turn in here!”And to him who lacks understanding (common sense), she says,

¹⁸ But he does not realize that the dead lurk there, and her invited guests wind up in the depths of Sheol.

¹⁸ But he does not know that the ^(j)dead are there,That her guests are in the ^(Z)depths of Sheol.

¹⁸ But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

¹⁸ But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,^(S)that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.^(T)

¹⁸ But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).