Proverbs 9:13 {14}
Good News Translation
Stupidity is like a loud, ignorant, shameless woman.

New Revised Standard Version
The foolish woman is loud; she is ignorant and knows nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Stupidity is reckless, senseless, and foolish.

New American Bible
Woman Folly is raucous, utterly foolish; she knows nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,

Proverbs 7:11 Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

Context
The Way of Folly
13Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,14To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:6
Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:11
Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.

Ezekiel 16:30
Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?

Proverbs 9:12
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