Proverbs 9:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

A foolish woman, &c.— We have here another allegorical picture, describing Folly under the person of a harlot, who fascinates with her enticements, and offers also her dainties to her guests; but dainties tainted with the most subtil poison. The Hebrew, rendered a foolish woman, is more strong; the woman of folly כסילות אשׁת eisheth keisiluth, folly herself bearing the character of a harlot. You have the image of concupiscence, and pleasure, whom all the philosophers have represented under this idea. Her characters, expressed to the life, are, 1. That she is obstreperous, tumultuous, in a perpetual heat and restlessness of passion. 2. That she is פויות petaiuth, madness itself; mere dissoluteness and deception; and 3. She cares not whatever happens. It is an aposiopesis, which expresses the highest degree of atrociousness. Schultens. Dr. Grey would render it, A woman of folly is clamorous, and knoweth not shame.