ESV Reformation Study Bible – Pr 9
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Pr 9

9:1–18 This section consists of two competing invitations, one from wisdom and the other from folly. Both are portrayed as women calling people to enter their houses. Wisdom invites the simple to eat of her life-giving food (vv. 1–12). Folly offers food that leads to death (vv. 13–18).