The Bible gives us many beautiful examples of worthy, beautiful, brilliant women. Esther, Hannah, and Judith, to name just a few. In Proverbs, King Solomon takes the time to discuss another kind of woman. This is the kind of woman who is labeled worthless, for good reason. I think about the lawyer JH and the neighbors’ mother group of gossipers right off as who he had in mind.
Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and apply thine ear to my words; 2 that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge.
Give no heed to a worthless woman;
3 for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate:
4 but afterwards
thou wilt find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
5 For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established. 6 For she goes not upon the paths of life;
but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
7 Now then, my son, hear me, and make not my words of none effect. 8 Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
So unlike the many wise and wonderful women we have looked into in recent months, we also see a clear understanding that there is an element of women who are nothing but trouble. The gossiper, the adulteress, the hater, and mean in heart. We all know someone, or maybe more than one of these women. They aren’t pleasant to be around.
King Solomon’s advice, interesting, was not to pray for her but
8 Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:
In other words, don’t befriend this individual. It’s not your job to try and fix everything and help everyone. Sometimes we just got to step away and call it done.