Woman of Folly

Just yesterday we saw wisdom personified in a woman calling out at the fork in the road with words of life and understanding.  Today's proverb contrasts that illustration with another woman.  Her way is folly and she too calls out from what seems to be the same place.  But she is loud, and calls out to those who lack judgement.  How is your walk of faith lately?  Do you stay on the straight way?  Or are you tempted to go off course? God forgive me for the times I was full of folly!

"The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge. 

  She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,  

  calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way. 

  "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment.  

  "Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!"

   But little do they know that the dead are there,

   that her guests are in the depths of the grave."

Proverbs 9:13-18