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11 Through wisdom, you will live a long time.
    Years will be added to your life.
12 If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you.
    If you make fun of others, you alone will suffer.

13 The woman called Foolishness is wild.
    She is childish and knows nothing.

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11 For through wisdom[a] your days will be many,
    and years will be added to your life.(A)
12 If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you;
    if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.

13 Folly is an unruly woman;(B)
    she is simple and knows nothing.(C)

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  1. Proverbs 9:11 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew me