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English Standard Version

Proverbs 9:13

The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Fool;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hell;   Lasciviousness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fool, folly;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Wine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fool;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Nothing;   Proverbs, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Folly is a rowdy woman;she is gullible and knows nothing.
Hebrew Names Version
The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
King James Version
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
New American Standard Bible
A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing.
New Century Version
Foolishness is like a loud woman; she does not have wisdom or knowledge.
New English Translation
The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
Amplified Bible
The foolish woman is restless and noisy; She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value].
World English Bible
The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A foolish woman is troublesome: she is ignorant, and knoweth nothing.
Legacy Standard Bible
The woman of foolishness is boisterous,A woman of simplicity, and does not know anything.
Berean Standard Bible
The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.
Contemporary English Version
Stupidity is reckless, senseless, and foolish.
Complete Jewish Bible
The foolish woman is coarse; she doesn't think, and she doesn't know a thing.
Darby Translation
The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.
Easy-to-Read Version
Foolishness is that other woman, who is loud, stupid, and knows nothing.
George Lamsa Translation
He who denies things falsely feeds on winds and pursues fowl of the air; for he has forsaken the way to his vineyard and the paths of his labor, to journey in the wilderness without water; in the places that are trodden he travels thirsty and gains nothing.
Good News Translation
Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant, shameless woman.
Lexham English Bible
A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know it.
Literal Translation
A foolish woman is noisy; she is thoughtless, and she knows not what.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A foolish restlesse woman, full of wordes, and soch one as hath no knowlege,
American Standard Version
The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Bible in Basic English
The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The woman Folly is riotous; she is thoughtless, and knoweth nothing.
King James Version (1611)
A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, & knoweth nothing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A foolishe retchlesse woman full of wordes, and suche a one as hath no knowledge,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel.
English Revised Version
The foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A fonned womman, and ful of cry, and ful of vnleueful lustis, and that kan no thing outirli,
Update Bible Version
The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knows nothing.
Webster's Bible Translation
A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
New King James Version
A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing.
New Living Translation
The woman named Folly is brash. She is ignorant and doesn't know it.
New Life Bible
A foolish woman makes much noise. She is open to sin, and knows nothing.
New Revised Standard
The foolish woman is loud; she is ignorant and knows nothing.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The woman Stupidity, is boisterous, so simple that she knoweth not what she would do;
Douay-Rheims Bible
A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,
Revised Standard Version
A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no shame.
Young's Literal Translation
A foolish woman [is] noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.
THE MESSAGE
Then there's this other woman, Madame Whore— brazen, empty-headed, frivolous. She sits on the front porch of her house on Main Street, And as people walk by minding their own business, calls out, "Are you confused about life, don't know what's going on? Steal off with me, I'll show you a good time! No one will ever know—I'll give you the time of your life." But they don't know about all the skeletons in her closet, that all her guests end up in hell.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive and knows nothing.

Contextual Overview

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

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 7:11, Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, 1 Timothy 6:4, *marg.

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:8 - refused Leviticus 15:20 - General Job 2:10 - as one Proverbs 11:22 - is without Proverbs 12:11 - he that followeth Proverbs 14:1 - the foolish Ezekiel 16:30 - weak Daniel 3:4 - aloud

Cross-References

Ezekiel 1:28
Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord . And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Revelation 4:3
And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
Revelation 10:1
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Proverbs 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. Antichrist is represented as a "woman", Revelation 17:3; and is "foolish"; for whatever worldly cunning and craft, and wicked subtlety, there may be in the Romish antichrist, yet he is destitute of all spiritual wisdom and knowledge; and is "clamorous" and noisy, has a mouth speaking great swelling words of vanity and blasphemy, boasting of infallibility, works of supererogation, merits, miracles, wealth, and riches; and very pressing and importunate to gain proselytes to his religion; the priests and Jesuits are compared to noisy, clamorous, croaking frogs, Revelation 16:13;

[she is] simple, and knoweth nothing; a woman of follies, extremely foolish and simple, and most grossly ignorant; knows nothing that is good, as the Targum; that is, spiritually good; knows not God aright; is without the fear and love of him, and faith in him; nor knows Christ, and the way of righteousness and life by him; nor the Spirit of God, and the operations of his grace upon the heart; nor the Gospel, and the doctrines of it; nor the ways, worship, and ordinances of God. The Septuagint and Arabic versions are, "she knows not shame"; but is bold and impudent, having a whore's forehead, and on it written, "Mystery, Babylon, the mother of harlots, and abominations of the earth", Revelation 17:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 (Proverbs 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 9:13. A foolish woman is clamorous — Vain, empty women, are those that make most noise. And she that is full of clamour, has generally little or no sense. We have had this character already, see Proverbs 7:11. The translation of the Septuagint is very remarkable: Γυνη αφρων και θρασεια, ενδεης ψωμου γινεται, "A lewd and foolish woman shall be in need of a morsel of bread."


 
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