>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/prov/9?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07809::c07809) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/proverbs/9.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Proverbs/9.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/pro/9/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>This chapter features a personification of Wisdom as a woman inviting people to learn and grow, speaking from a high place in a city, with a contrasting foolish woman offering deceitful promises to the same audience. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>Wisdom invites everyone to a special feast where they can learn and grow, but there is also a foolish lady who tries to trick people with her sweet treats. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Wisdom has built a grand house and invites the simple and those seeking understanding to partake of her feast, urging them to choose the path of understanding over foolishness. The chapter contrasts Wisdom's invitation with that of a foolish woman who sits in high places, calling out to passersby with empty promises of pleasure, leading only to destruction. The teachings emphasize that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and those who seek wisdom will increase in knowledge and prolong their lives. > >#Gospel/Wisdom #Gospel/Agency #Gospel/Consequences ###### 1 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: ###### 2 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. ###### 3 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, ###### 4 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, ###### 5 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. ###### 6 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. ###### 7 7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. ###### 8 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ###### 9 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. ###### 10 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. ###### 11 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. ###### 12 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. ###### 13 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. ###### 14 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, ###### 15 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: ###### 16 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, ###### 17 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ###### 18 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.