Posted on 12/09/2019 6:11:09 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“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” (Proverbs 9:13-14 KJV).
Solomon now switches to the other woman who has her house and her invitation. The invitation is for any to come in and see what she has to offer. The good woman who has a good house on a good foundations (pillars) offers bread and wine—it’s good. It produces long life, understanding, and wisdom. It departs from evil and is blessed of God. At the other end of the spectrum where this foolish woman waits, is totally the opposite. The number 13 is the number of rebellion in the Bible.
“A foolish woman is clamorous,” loud, noisy. So, if you want to know if a woman is wise or a fool, by their fruits ye shall know them. Always spouting off, can’t shut up, can’t listen to anybody, knows it all. She’s got an answer for every question, and a remedy for everything that goes wrong. And yet her life is steeped in problems of her own that she can’t solve.
“. . . she is simple, and knoweth nothing,” this simplicity here is nothing more than stupidity. She knows nothing at all. “Knowledge” in Greek is “gnosis” from where we get our word, “agnostic” from, or “no knowledge.” Well, that describes this woman. When someone professes to be an agnostic, they are admitting that they are stupid—self-professing stupidity. Really what it is, is “premeditated stupidity.” Peter tells us that they are “willingly ignorant.”
“. . . she is simple, and knoweth nothing,” if a woman is to know anything, she is to get it from her husband. “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church” (I Corinthians 14:34-35 KJV). She is to learn from her husband and her pastor—the men that God has put over her.
Now, here is why she is stupid:
“For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,” Paul writes: “Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits” (Romans 12:16 KJV).
The foolish woman is a woman that likes to sit in the high places. She likes to sit up there with all the other rich fools.
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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