accepting this invitation, clinging to her as a beloved spouse, and protecting the heart from going an alternative route toward the wayward woman or any other entanglement. Juxtaposed with Dame Folly by the time we reach Prov. 7, Lady Wisdom returns to center stage in Prov. 8, supplementing her call with claims about her role in creation itself. Climactically now in 9:1–6 Wisdom offers a place at table in her house—a metaphor no doubt connected, in the first instance, to the ongoing theme of family