“Whoever is simple, let him turn here, etc. Wisdom also seems to invite the little ones and the foolish to her feast with nearly the same words; but it differs, as she simply asks them to come to her, whereas this one urges them to turn aside to her. For wisdom summons those she sees wandering to the right path of acti…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs
Original
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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In context
14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
— Proverbs 9:16 —
17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.