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A clothed adult arm extends a beckoning open palm from a shadowed doorway above a clear road.
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Proverbs 9:16

Folly Repeats the Invitation

Wisdom’s Banquet and Folly’s Hidden Guests · Proverbs 9

Story guide: The beckoning hand echoes Wisdom’s invitation while its shadowed threshold adds the poem’s contrasting speaker.

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16“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,

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