Foolish Women

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, To call passengers who go right on their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, read more Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. show less

And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.