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Proverbs 9:11-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)

11. For by me [Wisdom from God] your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.

12. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty.

13. The foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and open to all forms of evil, she [willfully and recklessly] knows nothing whatever [of eternal value].

14. For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town,

15. Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way:

16. Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

17. Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]

18. But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).

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