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# Proverbs 9

Proverbs 9 is chapter 9 of 31 in the Book of Proverbs. Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Wisdom invites all to her feast. Folly calls another way.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Proverbs 9 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Wisdom has built a house for herself. She has hewn seven columns.
2. She has immolated her victims. She has mixed her wine and set forth her table.
3. She has sent her maids to call out to the tower and to the fortified walls of the city,
4. “If anyone is little, let him come to me.” And to the unwise, she has said:
5. “Approach. Eat my bread, and drink the wine that I have mixed for you.
6. Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence.”
7. Whoever teaches a mocker causes injury to himself. And whoever argues with the impious produces a blemish on himself.
8. Do not be willing to argue with a mocker, lest he hate you. Dispute with the wise, and he will love you.
9. Present an opportunity to the wise, and wisdom shall be added to him. Teach the just, and he will hurry to receive it.
10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holiness is prudence.
11. For by me, your days will be multiplied and years of life will be added to you.
12. If you would be wise, you will be so for yourself. But if you would be one who ridicules, you alone shall carry the evil.
13. A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,
14. sat at the entrance of her house on a seat, in a high place of the city,
15. so as to call to those who were passing by the way and continuing on their journey:
16. “Whoever is little, let him turn aside to me.” And to the frenzied, she said,
17. “Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant.”
18. And he did not know that giants are there, and that her companions are in the depths of Hell.

## Proverbs 9 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Sapientia ædificavit sibi domum: excidit columnas septem.
2. Immolavit victimas suas, miscuit vinum, et proposuit mensam suam.
3. Misit ancillas suas ut vocarent ad arcem et ad mœnia civitatis.
4. Si quis est parvulus, veniat ad me. Et insipientibus locuta est:
5. Venite, comedite panem meum, et bibite vinum quod miscui vobis.
6. Relinquite infantiam, et vivite, et ambulate per vias prudentiæ.
7. Qui erudit derisorem, ipse injuriam sibi facit, et qui arguit impium, sibi maculam generat.
8. Noli arguere derisorem, ne oderit te: argue sapientem, et diliget te.
9. Da sapienti occasionem, et addetur ei sapientia; doce justum, et festinabit accipere.
10. Principium sapientiæ timor Domini, et scientia sanctorum prudentia.
11. Per me enim multiplicabuntur dies tui, et addentur tibi anni vitæ.
12. Si sapiens fueris, tibimetipsi eris; si autem illusor, solus portabis malum.
13. Mulier stulta et clamosa, plenaque illecebris, et nihil omnino sciens,
14. sedit in foribus domus suæ, super sellam in excelso urbis loco,
15. ut vocaret transeuntes per viam, et pergentes itinere suo:
16. Qui est parvulus declinet ad me. Et vecordi locuta est:
17. Aquæ furtivæ dulciores sunt, et panis absconditus suavior.
18. Et ignoravit quod ibi sint gigantes, et in profundis inferni convivæ ejus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 721: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).