Bible Reading Plan

¹ Wisdom has built her house;^(a)
she has carved out her seven pillars.
² She has prepared her meat;^(b) she has mixed her wine;^(c)
she has also set her table.^(d)
3 She has sent out her female servants;^(e)
she calls out from the highest points of the city:^(f)
4 "Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!"
To the one who lacks sense,^(g) she says,
⁵ "Come, eat my bread,^(h)
and drink the wine I have mixed.
⁶ Leave inexperience behind, and you will live;
pursue the way of understanding.
⁷ The one who corrects a mocker
will bring dishonor on himself;
the one who rebukes a wicked man will get hurt.^[a]
8 Don't rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you;⁽ⁱ⁾
rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.^(j)
9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still;
teach a righteous man, and he will learn more.^(k)

¹⁰ "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,^(l)
and the knowledge of the Holy One^(m) is understanding.
¹¹ For by Wisdom your days will be many,
and years will be added to your life.
¹² If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;⁽ⁿ⁾
if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences."
¹³ The woman Folly is rowdy;^(o)
she is gullible and knows nothing.^(p)
14 She sits by the doorway of her house,
on a seat at the highest point of the city,
¹⁵ calling to those who pass by,
who go straight ahead on their paths:^(q)
16 "Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!"
To the one who lacks sense, she says,
¹⁷ "Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!"^(r)
18 But he doesn't know that the departed spirits are there,^(s)
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.^(t)