{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro009_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro009_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_pro009_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/pro009.htm","summary":"This is a comparative scripture text presenting Proverbs 9:1\u201318 in four parallel versions: the King James Version (with Strong's Concordance reference numbers interleaved), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), the Tanakh (Hebrew), and the Latin Vulgate. The chapter's central content is a dramatic contrast between two personified figures \u2014 Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly \u2014 who both call out from the high places of a city to invite the simple and uninstructed to enter their houses. Wisdom slaughters animals, mixes wine, and sets a table, urging her guests to eat, drink, and \"go in the way of understanding,\" while the middle section delivers aphoristic teaching: reproof is wasted on a scorner but welcomed by the wise, and \"the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.\" Lady Folly mirrors Wisdom's invitation almost word-for-word but offers instead \"stolen waters\" and secret bread \u2014 pleasures that seem sweet but conceal the fact that her guests descend into Sheol. The Septuagint version is notably expansive at verse 12, adding material about a man who \"herds the winds\" and wanders a waterless desert, content not found in the Hebrew, making it a useful witness to divergence between the Greek and Masoretic traditions. This layout is a tool for comparative textual study rather than devotional reading, suited to someone examining how translators across traditions handled a single Hebrew poetic passage.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Proverbs: Proverbs 9","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":969}