Solomon indicated how she invests her money: “She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard” (Proverbs 31:16). One cannot help thinking that Solomon’s mind kept going back to the Shulamite. He had wanted her so badly, yet she had turned him down, firmly and irrevocably. If he hadn’t played the fool with so many other women, he might have had her. He probably wished he had listened to his mother’s sound advice.
Proverbs 31:16–19