SUMMARY
Woman WisdomWisdom encompasses the qualities of experience, knowledge, and good judgment. The Old Testament book of Proverbs, which sometimes invokes a Woman as the personification of Wisdom, is a collection of aphorisms and moral teachings. Along with other biblical passages, it teaches, "The fear of the... More turns once more to speak directly to those listening.
ANALYSIS
This speech of Woman Wisdom ends with a declaration of the joys of those who find her. She addresses her listeners as her children. And she picks up all of the familiar themes of being happy/blessed, keeping her ways, hearing and heeding instruction, waiting at the gateGates are openings in walls or fences for entrance and departure. In the Bible (as in Ruth and the prophets) the city gate was a commercial center where business and social transactions took place. In Amos the gate is the location of the law court... More/door, and finding life rather than death.
