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13 ·Foolishness is like a loud woman [Woman Folly is boisterous/noisy];
    she ·does not have wisdom or knowledge [L is ignorant and does not even know it].
14 She sits at the door of her house
    at the highest place in the city [9:3; C her house is built on the highest point of the city, indicating she symbolizes false gods].
15 She ·calls out to [invites] those who are passing by,
    who are going along, minding their own business.
16 She says to those who ·are uneducated [lack sense/heart],
    “·Come in [Turn aside] here, you ·foolish [naive; immature; simpleminded] people!
17 Stolen water is sweeter,
    and food eaten in secret tastes better.”
18 But these people don’t know that ·everyone who goes there dies [the dead/departed/shades are there],
    that her guests ·end up deep in the grave [L are in the depths of Sheol].

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