Proverbs 9:14 (BSB)

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

From Proverbs 9. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 9:14

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 9:13-18: We have heard what Christ has to say, to engage our affections to God and godliness, and one would think the whole world should go after him; but here we are told how industrious the tempter is to seduce unwary souls into the paths of sin, and with the most he gains his point, and Wisdom's courtship is not effectual. Now observe, I.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 9:14: For she sitteth at the door of her house, Idle and inactive, looking out for her prey; not active and laborious, as Wisdom, building her house, killing her beasts, furnishing her table, and sending out her maidens to call in her guests; but exposing herself in the most public manner, and being at the utmost ease, sitting as a queen; see Rev 18:7; and as...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 9:14: on a seat--literally, "throne," takes a prominent place, impudently and haughtily.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 9:13-15: Pro 9:13-15 The poet now brings before us another figure, for he personifies Folly working in opposition to Wisdom, and gives her a feminine name, as the contrast to Wisdom required, and thereby to indicate that the seduction, as the 13th proverbial discourse (chap.