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³²Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
³³Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
³⁶But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

9Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
²She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
³She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
⁴Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
⁵Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
⁶Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
⁷He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
⁹Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
¹¹For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.