Proverbs 9:14
She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
BSB
ASV
And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
KJV
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
For she sitteth at the door of her house - Her conduct here marks at once her folly, impudence, and poverty. See above on Pro 7:6 (note), etc., where the reader will find a similar character.
"Do not all persons of rank and figure in the world" (says she) "give themselves a greater liberty than the strict laws of virtue allow; and why shouldst thou humble thyself so far as to be cramped by them?" Thus the tempter affects to seem both kind and great. Who are the tempted--young people who have been well educated; these she will triumph most in being the ruin of.
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 walk5
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 9:3She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
leads to
Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
The Lord gives the command; a great company of women proclaim it:
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
The servant returned and reported all this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city,…
