Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Folly is an unruly woman; she is simple and knows nothing. New Living Translation The woman named Folly is brash. She is ignorant and doesn’t know it. English Standard Version The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. Berean Standard Bible The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. King James Bible A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. New King James Version A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing. New American Standard Bible A woman of foolishness is boisterous, She has a lack of understanding and knows nothing. NASB 1995 The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive and knows nothing. NASB 1977 The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive, and knows nothing. Legacy Standard Bible The woman of foolishness is boisterous, A woman of simplicity, and does not know anything. Amplified Bible The foolish woman is restless and noisy; She is naive and easily misled and thoughtless, and knows nothing at all [of eternal value]. Christian Standard Bible Folly is a rowdy woman; she is gullible and knows nothing. Holman Christian Standard Bible The woman Folly is rowdy; she is gullible and knows nothing. American Standard Version The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing. Contemporary English Version Stupidity is reckless, senseless, and foolish. English Revised Version The foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple, and knoweth nothing. GOD'S WORD® Translation The woman Stupidity is loud, gullible, and ignorant. Good News Translation Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant, shameless woman. International Standard Version The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and without knowledge. Majority Standard Bible The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. NET Bible The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything. New Heart English Bible The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing. Webster's Bible Translation A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. World English Bible The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionA foolish woman [is] noisy, "" Simple, and has not known what. Young's Literal Translation A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what. Smith's Literal Translation A woman of folly being noisy, simple, and she knew not anything. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleA foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all, Catholic Public Domain Version A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all, New American Bible Woman Folly is raucous, utterly foolish; she knows nothing. New Revised Standard Version The foolish woman is loud; she is ignorant and knows nothing. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHe who denies things falsely feeds on winds and pursues fowl of the air; for he has forsaken the way to his vineyard and the paths of his labor, to journey in the wilderness without water; in the places that are trodden he travels thirsty and gains nothing. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated A woman deficient in mind is alluring and she knows no shame. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917The woman Folly is riotous; She is thoughtless, and knoweth nothing. Brenton Septuagint Translation A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to want a morsel. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Way of Folly13The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. 14She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,… Cross References Proverbs 7:10-12 Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart. / She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home. / Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. Proverbs 5:3-6 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, / in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. / Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. ... Proverbs 2:16-19 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. ... Proverbs 6:24-26 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. / Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. / For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Proverbs 23:27-28 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. / Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. Proverbs 11:22 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Judges 16:4-21 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. / The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.” / So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” ... Genesis 39:7-12 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” ... 1 Kings 11:1-4 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. / He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. ... Matthew 7:26-27 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. / The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!” 2 Timothy 3:6-7 They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, / who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 5:6 But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive. 1 Peter 3:3-4 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, / but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. / Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; / you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body. Treasury of Scripture A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knows nothing. Proverbs 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house… 1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Jump to Previous Boisterous Clamorous Folly Foolish Full Loud Naive Noise Noisy Riotous Sense Shame Simple Stupid Thoughtless Undisciplined WantonJump to Next Boisterous Clamorous Folly Foolish Full Loud Naive Noise Noisy Riotous Sense Shame Simple Stupid Thoughtless Undisciplined WantonProverbs 9 1. The discipline4. and the doctrine of wisdom 13. The custom 16. and error of folly The woman named Folly In the Hebrew text, the word for "Folly" is "kesilut," which conveys a sense of foolishness or lack of wisdom. This personification of folly as a woman contrasts with the earlier depiction of wisdom as a noble woman in Proverbs 9:1. The use of a female figure here is not to demean women but to create a vivid contrast between wisdom and folly, both of which are portrayed as women inviting people to follow their paths. Historically, this literary device was common in ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature, where abstract concepts were often personified to make them more relatable and memorable. is loud she is naive and knows nothing Clamorous.--Not of dignified mien, as her rival. Simple.--Heb., simplicity, i.e., she is simplicity itself. And knoweth nothing.--And so leaves room for all evil to enter in and dwell with her (Matthew 12:45); thus she perishes, like Israel, for "lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). Verses 13-18. - This section contains the invitation of Folly, the rival of Wisdom, represented under the guise of an adulteress (Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 5:3, etc.; Proverbs 6:24, etc.; Proverbs 7.). Verse 13. - I foolish woman; literally, the woman of folly, the genitive being that of apposition, so that this may well be rendered, in order to make the contrast with Wisdom more marked, "the woman Folly." She is regarded as a real person; and between her and Virtue man has to make his choice. Is clamorous; turbulent and animated by passion (as Proverbs 7:11), quite different from her calm, dignified rival. She is simple; Hebrew, "simplicity," in a bad sense; she has no preservative against evil, no moral fibre to resist temptation. And knoweth nothing which she ought to know. Ignorance is the natural accompaniment of Folly: in this case it is wilful and persistent; she goes on her way reckless of consequences. Septuagint, "A woman foolish and bold, who knows not shame, comes to want a morsel."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The womanאֵ֣שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female named Folly כְּ֭סִילוּת (kə·sî·lūṯ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 3687: Silliness is loud; הֹֽמִיָּ֑ה (hō·mî·yāh) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 1993: To make a, loud sound, commotion, tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor [she is] naive פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת (pə·ṯay·yūṯ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6615: Simplicity and knows יָ֥דְעָה (yā·ḏə·‘āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 3045: To know nothing. וּבַל־ (ū·ḇal-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb Strong's 1077: A failure, nothing, not at all, lest Links Proverbs 9:13 NIVProverbs 9:13 NLT Proverbs 9:13 ESV Proverbs 9:13 NASB Proverbs 9:13 KJV Proverbs 9:13 BibleApps.com Proverbs 9:13 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 9:13 Chinese Bible Proverbs 9:13 French Bible Proverbs 9:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 9:13 The foolish woman is loud Undisciplined (Prov. Pro Pr) |
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