Wisdom is a woman who built her house
1Wisdom is a woman
who built her house,
a house that had 7 pillars.
2Then she prepared meat
and wine and she set her table.
The wine was mixed with herbs.
3She sent her young servant girls
to go and stand at the highest place
in the city and to say to everyone:
4‘Come here, all of you
who know very little.
5Come and eat my food
and drink my wine,
the wine that I have mixed with herbs.
6Stop doing foolish things so that
you can live and think like wise people.’
If you are wise you will have a happy and long life
7If you talk to someone
who always mocks wisdom
and you want to teach him what is right,
he will laugh at you.
If you want to tell him that he is wrong,
he will hurt you.
8Don't try to teach a foolish person
not to boast, because he will hate you.
But if you teach a wise man
to live in the right way, he will love you.
9When you teach a wise person something,
he gets more wisdom.
When you teach something to
a man who lives in the right way,
he will know even more.
10The most important thing
about wisdom is to worship
and respect the Lord.
If you want to understand and get real_life,
you must know the holy God.
11If you have wisdom,
you will have a happy and long life.
12If you are wise, your wisdom
will help you and reward you,
but if you are foolish and
laugh at wisdom, you will suffer.
Foolish people don't know how to do what is right
13The woman with the name of Foolishness
is a loud woman who
does not have wisdom or knowledge.
14She sits at the door of her house
at the highest place in the city
15and she calls all the people
who come near her house.
She calls everyone who walks past her house.
16She calls all the people
who know very little.
She tells them to come to her and she says:
17‘If you steal water, it tastes sweet.
If you eat food secretly
where no one can see you,
it tastes better.’
18But the people don't know
that everyone who goes into her home dies.
The people who went there before
are now in the underworld.
