The Way of Folly

Proverbs 9

¹³ _t The woman Folly is _u loud;
she is seductive ₁ and _v knows nothing.
¹⁴ She sits at the door of her house;
she takes a seat on _w the highest places of the town,
¹⁵ calling to those who pass by,
who are _x going straight on their way,
¹⁶ _y "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!"
And to him who lacks sense she says,
¹⁷ _z "Stolen water is sweet,
and _a bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
¹⁸ But he does not know _b that the dead ₂ are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

1. Cross References
   Proverbs 9:13 - 18
   The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.
   Proverbs 7:7 - 27
   And I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense.
   
2. Cross References
   Proverbs 7:11
   She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home.
   
3. Cross References
   Proverbs 5:6
   She does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
   
4. Cross References
   Proverbs 9:3
   She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town.
   
5. Cross References
   Proverbs 9:6
   Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.
   
6. Cross References
   Proverbs 9:4
   Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks sense she says.
   
7. Cross References
   Proverbs 5:15
   Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
   
8. Cross References
   Proverbs 20:17
   Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
   Proverbs 30:20
   This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have done no wrong.
   
9. Cross References
   Proverbs 7:27
   Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.