Proverbs 9:13

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about the noise of Lady Folly:

Proverbs 9:13

The woman of folly is boisterous,

She is naive and knows nothing.

Proverbs 9:13 (ESV)

The woman Folly is loud;

she is seductive and knows nothing.

Folly might try to camouflage herself in multiple ways.   She may paint herself up and sprinkle pretty perfume all about her (Proverbs 7).  She might even put a ring in her nose (Proverbs 11:22).    However, she can't help but boast of herself.   She can't help but tell everyone who she is.   Folly wants everyone to know she hates wisdom.  She will make herself known ... despite her desire to hide her mission of destruction.   "She is naive and knows nothing," says the second line.  The tragedy is not that she opens her mouth loud to all at the top of the mountain; the tragedy is that she knows nothing about what she is saying.  She knows nothing.   Yet, people follow her.  They follow her because she is loud and makes more noise than those who are silent with the truth of wisdom.   She is loud and others hear her over the truth.   We have the truth and we sit silent and Folly gets all the attention.   She gets all the ears.  We have to make sure we are speaking as loud as folly.   Wisdom has the truth and we can promote it.  Or, we can sit in silence and let Folly's big mouth get all the attention and lead hundreds and thousands down her path of destruction.