2), but there is a deadly poison in the dish. Eating of her food brings a man down into a devil; the bread and wine of Wisdom nourishes and strengthens him until he becomes "equal unto the angels of God" (Luke xx. 26). _OUTLINES AND SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS._ Verses 1-18. The prototypical relation of the contents of this chapter to our Lord's parables founded on banquets (Matt. xxii. 1-14, Luke xiv. 16-24) is evident, and therefore its special importance to the doctrines of the call of salvation.--_Lange's Commentary._ Verse 13. "Clamorous," that is, so bustling as to allow no time for repentance (see 5, 6), like Cardinal Mazarin, of whom it was said that the devil would never let him rest. The sinner is so hurried along in the changes of life, as apparently to unsettle any attempted reformation. "Knows nothing;" an expression grandly doctrinal. The impenitent is blankly dark. Eccles. vi. 5 represents the perishing as like an untimely birth. "He hath not seen the sun, nor known anything." "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Cor. ii. 14). "Where can Wisdom be found?" says the inspired man (Job xxviii. 14-22). "The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me." The woman of folly is blankly ignorant; for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and if she had not the beginning, then mental light, if she have any, must be but as "darkness" (Matt. vi. 23).--_Miller._ A foolish woman is clamorous, and hath many words, but they are words only, for she knoweth nothing; the folly of sin is clamorous, and maketh many promises of pleasure and contentment, but they are promises only, and she performeth nothing.--_Jermin._ Verse 15. Her chief aim is to secure the godly, or those inclined to become so; for she is secure as to others, and therefore takes no great trouble in their case.--_Fausset._ Even the highway of God, though a path of safety, is beset with temptation Satan is so angry with none as with those _who are going right on._--_Bridges._ Verse 16. Wisdom sets up her school to instruct the ignorant: Folly sets up her school next door to defeat the designs of Wisdom. Thus the saying of the satirist appears to be verified:-- "Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil surely builds a chapel there; And it is found, upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation."--_Defoe._ --_Adam Clark._ Folly does not invite the scorners, because she is secure of them, but only the "simple," _i.e.,_ those who are such in the judgment of the Holy Spirit. Scripture expresses not what she says in outward words, but what is the reality. Whosoever turns in to her is a simpleton. _Cartwright_ takes it that she calls the pious "simple." Verse 15 favours this.--_Fausset._