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Proverbs 9

2 Wisdom calleth all to her feast. 7 The scorner will not be corrected. 10 The fear of God. 13 The conditions of the harlot.
1.Wisdom hath built her ahouse, and hewn out her bseven pillars.
2.She hath killed her vitailes, drawen her wine, & cprepared her table.
3.She hath sent forth her dmaidens and crieth upon the highest places of the city, saying,
4.Whoso is esimple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisdom, she saith,
5.Come, and eat of my fmeat, and drink of the wine that I have drawen.
6.Forsake your way, ye foolish, and ye shall live: and walk in the way of understanding.
7.He that reproveth a scorner, purchaseth to him self shame: and he that rebuketh the wicked, getteth him self ga blot.
8.Rebuke not a hscorner, lest he hate thee: but rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9.Give admonition to the wise, and he will be the wiser: teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
10.The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of holy things, is iunderstanding.
11.For thy days shalbe multiplied by me, and the years of thy life shalbe augmented.
12.If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for kthy self, and if thou be a scorner, thou alone shalt suffer.
13.¶ A lfoolish woman is troublesome: she is ignorant, and knoweth nothing.
14.But she sitteth at the door of her house on a seat in the high places of the city,
15.To call them that pass by the way, that go right on their way,
16.Who so is simple, let him come hither, and to him that is destitute of wisdom, she saith also,
17.Stolen waters are sweet, and hid bread is pleasant.
18.But he knoweth not, that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depth of hell.

Notes

1-a.
Christ has prepared him a Church.
1-b.
That is, many chief states and principle parts of his Church, as were the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, Pastors, and Doctors.
2-c.
He compares wisdom with great princes that keep open house for all that come.
3-d.
Meaning true preachers, which are not infected with man’s wisdom.
4-e.
He that knows his own ignorance and is void of malice.
5-f.
By the meat and drink, is meant the word of God and the ministration of the sacraments, whereby God nourishes his servants in his house, which is the Church.
7-g.
For the wicked will contemn him and labour to defame him.
8-h.
Meaning, them that are incorrigible, which Christ calls dogs and swine or he speaks this in comparison, not that the wicked should not be rebuked, but he shows their malice, and the small hope of profit.
10-i.
He shows what true understanding is, to know the will of God in his word, which is meant by holy things.
12-k.
You shall have the chief profit, and commodity thereof.
13-l.
By the foolish woman, some understand, the wicked preachers, who counterfeit the word of God, as appears verse 16, which were the words of the true preachers as verse 4: but their doctrine is but as stolen waters: meaning that they are but men’s traditions, which are more pleasant to the flesh then the word of God and therefore they themselves boast thereof.