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# General Information:
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These verses begin to give the message of Wisdom, who is personified as a woman. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# She has sent out her maids
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These maids went out and invited people to come to the feast that Wisdom had prepared.
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# her maids
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Young women or girls who are in the service of a respectable, adult woman, such as Wisdom.
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# she calls out
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"she proclaims" or "she summons" AT: "she loudly recites her invitation"
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# the highest points of the city
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The invitation is shouted from the highest points so that it will be best heard by all the people.
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# Who is naive? Let ... the one lacking good sense
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These two phrases describe the same group of people, those who need more wisdom in their lives. Here the question is addressed to all such people. AT: "Anyone who is naive, let ... anyone lacking good sense"
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# is naive
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"is inexperienced or immature"
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# turn aside here
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"leave his path and come into my house" |