CHAP. IX.
Wisdom invites all to her feast.
Folly calls another way.
1 Wisdom hath built
herself a house, she
hath hewed her out seven pillars.
2 She hath slain her victims,
mingled her wine, and
set forth her table.
3 She hath sent her maids
to invite to the tower, and to
the walls of the city:
4 Whosoever is a little
one, let him come to me.
And to the unwise she said:
5 Come, eat my bread, and
drink the wine which I have
mingled for you.
6 Forsake childishness, and
live, and walk by the ways
of prudence.
7 He that teacheth a scorner
doth an injury to himself;
and he that rebuketh a wicked
man, getteth himself a blot.
8 Rebuke not a scorner lest
he hate thee. Rebuke a wise
man, and he will love thee.
9 Give an occasion to a
wise man, and wisdom shall
be added to him. Teach a just
man, and he shall make haste
to receive it.
10 The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy
is prudence.
11 For by me shall thy
days be multiplied, and years
of life shall be added to thee.
12 If thou be wise, thou
shalt be so to thyself: and if
a scorner, thou alone shalt bear
the evil.
13 A foolish woman and
clamorous, and full of allurements,
and knowing nothing
at all,
14 Sat at the door of her
house, upon a seat, in a high
place of the city,
15 To call them that pass
by the way, and go on their
journey:
16 He that is a little one,
let him turn to me, And to
the fool she said:
17 Stolen waters are sweeter,
and hidden bread is more
pleasant.
18 And he did not know
that giants are there, and that
her guests are in the depths of
hell.
The parables of Solomon.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
