“If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.”
Her enticement: Come, eat my stolen food; drink the water I have stolen. But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead. Follys invitation is to stolen food and stolen water, immediately revealing that her pleasures are ill-gotten. The consequence is hidden from initial view: her guests end up among the dead, in the realm of the dead. This suggests that those who follow Folly think they are alive but are actually moving toward death, into Sheol. The deception is profound: Folly masks death as life.
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