Proverbs 9:16 meaning and explanation

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

Proverbs 9:16, Berean Standard Bible

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In this verse Folly, pictured as a woman, calls out from the doorway of her house to the same people Wisdom invited in verse 4: the simple and those who lack judgment. She uses Wisdom's exact words, which is the point.

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