Proverbs 9:4

“Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither, etc.] Into Wisdom’s house, so well built and furnished; the church of Christ, as a house of instruction; a school, where such who are “simple”, weak, and foolish, may learn. Here are many instructors; saints instruct one another; ministers of the word are teachers; yea, Father, Son, and Spirit, here teach and instruct, and none teach like them. Here many lessons are to be learned concerning themselves, concerning Christ, and concerning their duty to God and men; all sorts of persons may learn here, such who know ever so much or ever so little. Or let him turn in here, as into an inn, into which passengers or travellers turn for accommodations; (see…”

“(Compare Pro 1:4; Pro 6:32). Wisdom not only supplies right but forbids wrong principles.”

“Simple - Ignorant, and weak. Proverbs 9:7”

“9:4 Wisdom makes her appeal especially to the simple and those who lack good judgment because they have not yet decided between wisdom and folly. See 9:16, where Folly mimics and then perverts Wisdom’s words.”

“Pro 9:16, Pro 1:22, Pro 6:32, Pro 8:5; Psa 19:7, Psa 119:130; Mat 11:25; Rev 3:17, Rev 3:18, Rev 22:17 Proverbs 9:5”

“Now follows the street-sermon of Wisdom inviting to her banquet: 4 Who is simple? let him come hither!" Whoso wanteth understanding, to him she saith: 5 "Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled! 6 Cease, ye simple, and live, And walk straight on in the way of understanding." The question מי פּתי (thus with Munach, not with Makkeph, it is to be written here and at Pro 9:16; vid., Baer's Torath Emeth, p. 40), quis est imperitus, is, as Psa 25:12, only a more animated expression for quisquis est. The retiring into the background of the נערות (servants), and the immediate appearance of Wisdom herself, together with the interruption, as was to be expected, of her…”