Proverbs 9:15

15 calling to those who pass by, who go straight ahead on their paths:^[a]

Proverbs 9:15 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 9:15

To call passengers who go right on their ways.
] Who have been religiously educated, and trained up in the principles of true Christianity; and who walk outwardly according to the rule of the divine word, and are in a fair way for heaven and eternal happiness. These she has her eye upon as they pass along, and calls unto them, and endeavours to turn them aside out of the way they are going, to make them proselytes to her antichristian religion; which, when she succeeds in, she glories and boasts of; just as harlots are very desirous of seducing and debauching chaste, innocent, and virtuous persons; see ( Revelation 2:20 ) . Saying as follows:

Proverbs 9:15 In-Context

13 The woman Folly is rowdy; she is gullible and knows nothing.

14 She sits by the doorway of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

15 calling to those who pass by, who go straight ahead on their paths:

16 "Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!" To the one who lacks sense, she says,

17 "Stolen water is sweet, and bread [eaten] secretly is tasty!"

Footnotes

• [a]. Pr 7:11-12; 9:3-4