Proverbs 9:11–15

11 For by me your days will be many,

and years will be added to your life.

12 If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;p

if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

13 Folly is a rowdy woman;q

she is gullible and knows nothing.r

14 She sits by the doorway of her house,

on a seat at the highest point of the city,

15 calling to those who pass by,

who go straight ahead on their paths:s