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Chapter 14

Wisdom builds her house,
    but Folly tears hers down with her own hands.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 14:1 The relationship between Wisdom, personified as a woman, and building a house is a constant theme. As elsewhere, the book here warns against the wrong woman and praises the right woman.

14 The wise woman builds her house,(A)
    but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

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