Hebrew Names Version HNV
New International Version NIV
12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
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If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
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Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing.
14 She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
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She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
15 To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their ways,
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calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way,
16 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
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“Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense she says,
17 "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
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“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”
18 But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of She'ol.
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But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.
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