For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
The woman sits at the doorway of her own house, on a seat placed high and in full view in the city, and she is folly in person. Her open, elevated posture belongs to the chapter's warning against sins that stand condemned. The verse belongs to the Proverbs 8 to 11 portion, to be read with self-examination over whether the beginning of wisdom is present in life.
It stands within a collection of poetic wise sayings chiefly from Solomon that concern everyday duties to family, neighbor, friend, and God. That collection presents modesty, chastity, temperance, forbearance, gentleness, industry, and submission to correction, and it warns against intemperance. In that collection Christ gives invitations and counsels in the character of Wisdom, and Jehovah is set forth as creator and governor of the universe and disposer of human destinies who rewards piety and punishes evil.
The woman sits at the doorway of her own house, on a seat placed high and in full view in the city, and she is folly in person. Her open, elevated posture belongs to the chapter's warning against sins that stand condemned. The verse belongs to the Proverbs 8 to 11 portion, to be read with self-examination over whether the beginning of wisdom is present in life.
It stands within a collection of poetic wise sayings chiefly from Solomon that concern everyday duties to family, neighbor, friend, and God. That collection presents modesty, chastity, temperance, forbearance, gentleness, industry, and submission to correction, and it warns against intemperance. In that collection Christ gives invitations and counsels in the character of Wisdom, and Jehovah is set forth as creator and governor of the universe and disposer of human destinies who rewards piety and punishes evil.