The Wiles of the Wicked WomanTell A Friend | Add to Favourites | Print this Page Dead Sea Scroll 4Q183 This scroll is another example of the wisdom literature from the Dead Sea Scrolls collection, and aims to portray life in terms of the contrast between the wise man and the fool, and between the wisdom and the folly they live by. "The ancient Israelites personified wisdom itself as a wise woman, Lady Wisdom, who invited all and sundry to come to her house and learn from her (Proverbs 8: 1-9; 6). According to the apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon, King Solomon desired to 'marry' Lady Wisdom. The natural step would have been a personification of Folly, and such appears to be the intent of the present work. 'Lady Folly' here is a seductress; she is a more sensational version of the archetypical loose woman depicted in the Bible (Proverbs 7: 1-27). She seeks to draw men away from the path of truth and lead them to her own house of falsehood. Folly's evil intent pervades her being. Frag. 1 1[Folly] produces nothingness, and in [...]. She is always seeking error, she whets the words of [her mouth]. With raillery 2and jesting she flatters, and adds derisions to useless [vanity]. Her heart creates lewdness, and her inner being [. .. Her eyes] 3are befouled with perversity, her hands grip corruption tight. Her feet come down to do evil, and to walk in the crimes of [. .. Her thighs are] 4pillars of darkness, a horde of sins is under her hem, her [... ] blackest night. Her clothing and dwelling reveal the corruption of wickedness. Her attire [... ] 5her robes are gloom of twilight, while her jewelry is infected with rot. Her bed is a couch of corruption [... ] 6pits of hell. Her inns are where darkness lies down, she holds sway at the dead of night. Among the pillars of gloom 7she pitches her tent, and settles among the tents of silence, in the middle of perpetual flames. She does not belong with any of those 8illumined by brightness. Those who follow Lady Folly, like those whom the adulteress seduces, shall be eternally punished ('her house is the way to Hades,' Proverbs 7: 27). No, she is the beginning of all evil paths: alas for all who take possession of her, and destruction comes to all 9who take hold of her, for her ways are deadly, her paths lead to sin, her by-ways end in 10evil, her tracks in criminal wrongdoing. Her gates are the gates of Death, in the entrance of her house she walks. To Hades 11all, [without] return! All who take possession of her go straight to Hell. Folly is always on the lookout for new prey; like the adulteress, 'she lies in wait at every corner' (Proverbs 7: 12). She lies secretly in wait [... ] 12all [... ] in the city streets she hides, in the town gates she takes her stand, and no one will [... ] 13[.] her eyes dart here and there, she flutters her eyelids lewdly, looking for a 14righteous man to catch, looking for a strong man to trip up, for someone honest to lead astray, for innocent youths 15to keep from obeying the commandments, for the firm of [purpose] to make empty with lewdness, for those who live honestly to make them break the law; to cause 16the humble to rebel from God, and to divert their steps from the way of righteousness, to put arrogance in their [hearts], so that they do not remain 17in the paths of integrity. She seeks to make people go wrong in the ways of Hell, seducing the human race by flattery."[1] Footnote: [1] Wise, Michael, Abegg, Martin, Cook, Edward, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, Hodder & Stoughton, Rydalmere, NSW, 1996, pp. 240-241. The URL of this page is:
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