The RSV reads:
Wisdom builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Every single one of the other translations - without exception, that I could find - refer to a wise woman or women, and I think that loses something because the verse is not about a woman or women, it's about wisdom. It is interesting that wisdom is designated as female, here and elsewhere, and that's something to really think about, but to make the verse about wise women vs foolish women - I think that misses the point.
What brought this verse to mind was that I was watching a video about our current political moment, and the discussion centered on the way that humanity's baser tendencies, which seem to be winning out at the moment, are self-defeating. They tear themselves down.
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