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The adulteress[a]

Once I was looking out through the window of my house. I saw a group of silly young men. One of them was not wise at all. He was walking along the street near the house of a bad woman.

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  1. 7:6 This is the first part of Solomon's final lesson to his son. It is about a woman who deceives a foolish man. This man is a fool, because he is destroying his life. He does not realize what will happen to him. We can choose to listen to the woman who is ‘Wisdom’ (Chapter 8), or we can choose to listen to the woman who leads us into sin. This is a picture of the decisions that we make in life.