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Text -- Proverbs 9:1-18 (NET)

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The Consequences of Accepting Wisdom or Folly
9:1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out its seven pillars. 9:2 She has prepared her meat, she has mixed her wine; she also has arranged her table. 9:3 She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city. 9:4 “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,” she says to those who lack understanding. 9:5 “Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed. 9:6 Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.” 9:7 Whoever corrects a mocker is asking for insult; whoever reproves a wicked person receives abuse. 9:8 Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you. 9:9 Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning. 9:10 The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and acknowledging the Holy One is understanding. 9:11 For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. 9:12 If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it. 9:13 The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything. 9:14 So she sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city, 9:15 calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way. 9:16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here,” she says to those who lack understanding. 9:17 “Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!” 9:18 But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
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 · Sheol the place of the dead


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Personification | Wisdom | Fool | Prostitute | Salvation | Hell | Lasciviousness | Adultery | Ignorance | Wise, wisdom | Hospitality | Wine | Temptation | BEAST | BLOT | Reproof | Food | Fear of God | Fellowship | Infidelity | more
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NET Notes: Pro 9:1 Wisdom is personified as a wise woman. She has prepared a house and established it on seven pillars. This is a reference to the habitable world (e.g.,...

NET Notes: Pro 9:2 Wisdom has prepared a sumptuous banquet in this house and sends out her maids to call the simple to come and eat (M. Lichtenstein, “The Banquet ...

NET Notes: Pro 9:3 The text uses two synonymous terms in construct to express the superlative degree.

NET Notes: Pro 9:4 Heb “heart”; cf. NIV “to those who lack judgment.”

NET Notes: Pro 9:5 The expressions “eat” and “drink” carry the implied comparison forward; they mean that the simple are to appropriate the teach...

NET Notes: Pro 9:6 The verb means “go straight, go on, advance” or “go straight on in the way of understanding” (BDB 80 s.v. אָש...

NET Notes: Pro 9:7 The verb “receives” is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.

NET Notes: Pro 9:8 Heb “lest he hate you.” The particle פֶּן (pen, “lest”) expresses fear or precaution (R. J. Williams, ...

NET Notes: Pro 9:9 The term “his” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for the sake of smoothness and clarity.

NET Notes: Pro 9:10 The word is in the plural in the Hebrew (literally “holy ones”; KJV “the holy”). It was translated “holy men” in T...

NET Notes: Pro 9:11 The verb וְיוֹסִיפוּ (vÿyosifu) is the Hiphil imperfect, third masculine plural...

NET Notes: Pro 9:12 The LXX has an addition: “Forsake folly, that you may reign forever; and seek discretion and direct understanding in knowledge.”

NET Notes: Pro 9:13 The text of v. 13 has been difficult for translators. The MT has, “The foolish woman is boisterous, simplicity, and knows not what.” The L...

NET Notes: Pro 9:15 The participle modifies the participle in the first colon. To describe the passers-by in this context as those “who go straight” means tha...

NET Notes: Pro 9:16 This expression is almost identical to v. 4, with the exception of the addition of conjunctions in the second colon: “and the lacking of underst...

NET Notes: Pro 9:17 Heb “bread of secrecies.” It could mean “bread [eaten in] secret places,” a genitive of location; or it could mean “brea...

NET Notes: Pro 9:18 The text has “in the depths of Sheol” (בְּעִמְקֵי שְׁא...

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