“... In this section of 4Q184 the character is radically transformed. Until now the character has been based primarily on references to the characters from Proverbs of the Strange Woman and Dame Folly. While the allusions here are also to Proverbs, they are now al- lusions to Folly’s nemesis, the good and righteous Lady Wisdom. What is said approvingly in Proverbs about Wisdom is inverted in 4Q184 1, turning statements about Wisdom’s goodness into expressions about the evil, sin, and darkness of this character. In doing so, the interpreter changes the characters in Proverbs into a more perfect oppo- site of the supernatural character of Wisdom—her evil twin. [...] This brief introduction to the reversal of wisdom leads immediately to this obvious and striking reversal of Pr 3:17–18: [...] 18 She is a tree of life to those who possess her and all who hold her are happy. [...] 17 Her paths are paths of goodness, and all her ways are peace. [...] ...Alas! ruin shall be to all who inherit her, and desolation to a[ll]9 who hold her. [...] For her paths are paths of death and her by- ways[s] are the roads to sin; her tracks lead astray 10 to iniquity, and her ways are the guilt of transgression. ...”