Proverbs 9:13

A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to lack a morsel.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. + 9:12 Heb. — to beginning of verse 13. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

14She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets,

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Cross References

Proverbs 7:11And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.

Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13

The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →

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