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A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing.

Proverbs 9:13

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

She sits at the doorway of her house, On a seat by the high places of the city,

Proverbs 9:14

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

Calling to those who pass by, Who are going straight on their paths:

Proverbs 9:15

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

"Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," And to him who lacks understanding she says,

Proverbs 9:16

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

"Stolen water is sweet; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."

Proverbs 9:17

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

But he does not know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 9:18

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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