Follow Wisdom

Daily Reading Proverbs 9

Those who are easy lead astray will heed the invitation of foolish woamn. They follow her and receive a false reality that things are better with her but the result is a greater bondage. To avoid the trap of the foolish woman follow after wisdom. In every decision look for God's wisdom and don't be wise in your own thinking. 

¹³ The foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and open to all forms of evil, she [willfully and recklessly] knows nothing whatever [of eternal value].

¹⁴ For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town,

¹⁵ Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way:

¹⁶ Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

¹⁷ Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

¹⁸ But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).