Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table. She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city: “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him, “Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed! Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of […]
⛓ Read Proverbs 9 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Wisdom builds her house, 'kills her beasts,' mixes her wine, and sends out maidservants to invite the simple to her feast — close structural echo of slaughtered cattle (22:4) and servants sent to call guests (22:3-4,9).
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Personified Wisdom who sends out her maids and issues invitation stands behind "the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets'" (11:49). A faint Wisdom-figure availability for the sending-and-rejection oracle; contested.
Low confidenceWisdom's banquet invitation to the simple and those who lack sense offers a sapiential pattern for Jesus reclining at table with sinners and summoning them. The link rests on the meal-as-invitation-to-the-unworthy motif, with no verbal borrowing. Contested and low.
Low confidence