Proverbs 5:1–6
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About this episode
The book of Proverbs is not a collection of disconnected, fortune-cookie platitudes for a respectable life. It presents us with a stark choice, a choice between two ways, two paths, two houses, and two women. On the one hand, you have Lady Wisdom, who has built her house, slaughtered her beasts, and set her table. She calls out from the high places, inviting the simple to come and dine, to find life and favor from the Lord (Prov. On the other hand, you have Dame Folly, the strange woman, the adulteress. But her house is the way to Sheol, and her feast is a feast of death (Prov. Every man, every day, is hearing these two invitations. Our text today is a father's urgent plea to his son, equipping him to discern the difference between these two calls.