1. Wisdom has built her
house;
she has hewn out its seven pillars.
2. She has prepared her meat and
mixed her wine;
she has also set her table.
3. She has sent out her maids,
and she calls
from the highest point of the city.
4. "Let all who are simple come
in here!"
she says to those who lack judgment.
5. "Come, eat my food
and drink the wine I have mixed.
6. Leave your simple ways and
you will live;
walk in the way of understanding.
7. "Whoever corrects a mocker
invites insult;
whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
8. Do not rebuke a mocker or he
will hate you;
rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
9. Instruct a wise man and he
will be wiser still;
teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning.
10. "The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11. For through me your days
will be many,
and years will be added to your life.
12. If you are wise, your wisdom
will reward you;
if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer."
13. The woman Folly is loud;
she is undisciplined and without knowledge.
14. She sits at the door of her
house,
on a seat at the highest point of the city,
15. calling out to those who
pass by,
who go straight on their way.
16. "Let all who are simple come
in here!"
she says to those who lack judgment.
17. "Stolen water is sweet;
food eaten in secret is delicious!"
18. But little do they know that
the dead are there,
that her guests are in the depths of the
grave.
One reason porn is so
shameful is that it's blatantly "loud, undisciplined
and without knowledge," in the words of verse 13
above. Who wants to be known as having that kind of
taste? (Not that smoothing out the rough edges of porn
would make it any less shameful.)
We're red-faced for stooping so
low. We're red-faced even if no one else knows our
smut habit. We're red-faced because we know how
degrading porn is, even as we click from one dirty
page to the next.
So scroll back up to verses 10
and 11 above. There's a cure for the shame. Namely, to
hear and heed your own heart's condemnation of porn
(consider it to be the voice of not only your
conscience but God himself).
Acknowledge porn for what it is
— "loud, undisciplined and without knowledge,"
and resolve never to be caught viewing it again either
by another person or by your own
conscience.