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Proverbs 9:11-18 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

11. For by me your days shall increase, and years of life shall multiply for you.

12. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, alone you shall bear it.

13. A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know it.

14. She sits at the door of her house, upon a throne at the high places of town,

15. in order to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight on their way:

16. “Whoever is simple, may he turn here!” As for he who lacks sense, she says to him,

17. “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.”

18. But he does not know that the dead are there, in the depths of Sheol are her guests.

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