Proverbs 9:13
The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
BSB
ASV
The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing.
KJV
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
A foolish woman is clamorous,.... Some by this woman understand folly itself, as opposed to wisdom; others blind reason, ignorant of divine things; others carnal sensual pleasure, which entices and draws men to that which is evil; others heresy and superstition; others the old serpent, the devil; she seems to be the same with the strange woman and harlot before described, Pro 2:16, &c. and being set in direct opposition to Wisdom, or Christ, seems to design antichrist, who is described in the book of the Revelation as the great whore; and all the characters here agree with the same.
The picture of the harlot as the representative of the sensual life, the Folly between which and Wisdom the young man has to make his choice (Pro 9:3 note). “Simple,” in the worst sense, as open to all forms of evil. “Knoweth nothing,” ignorant with the ignorance which is willful and reckless.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 21:19Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
leads to
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Through
Proverbs 21:9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
leads to
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
Through
1 Timothy 6:4he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
leads to
But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.
traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
