Proverbs 9:12-18 (Vespers, 2nd reading)
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- If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you will bear it alone.”
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- A foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple, and knows nothing.
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- For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat by the highest places of the city,
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- to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their way:
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- “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here”; and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
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- “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
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- But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.