The foolish woman is clearly the adulteress of chapter 7 come back again. ‘A foolish woman is clamorous’ – moderns versions say ‘loud’.
This world when it tempts you, it does not want you to think the matter through, it does not want you to go home and say, well supposing I put my life down this road, supposing I go in for all the kind of sinful pleasures preached by the agony aunts and so on. Supposing I do, what will be the effect? What will happen to me, psychologically, physically, emotionally, what will happen to my family, what kind of relationships can be built upon those ways? It drags you in before you can think. Whereas the wisdom of God spells it all out. Come, this is what will happen to you if you go that way; this is what I will do for you. This is the difference it will make to you, these are the grounds of my appeal to you, here are my reasonings. The wisdom of God appeals to your mind, as well as to your heart. It explains all. What a contrast there is between the wisdom of God and the tawdry wicked, dishonest, clamorous methods of the world, to trap your soul and to take you under its fold. The wisdom of God is the clearest, the most open, honest, and reliable message available to us.