Proverbs 7:12
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house.
13So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house,
Proverbs 23:28Yea, she lays in wait as a robber, and increases the treacherous among men.
Jeremiah 2:33How thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women thou have taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes to the bare heights, and see. Where have thou not been lain with? By the ways thou have sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness, and thou have polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31in that thou build thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and make thy lofty place in every street. And have not [even] been as a harlot, in that thou scorn hire.
Revelation 18:23And the light of a lamp will, no, not shine in thee any more. And a voice of a bridegroom and of a bride will, no, not be heard in thee any more. Because thy merchants were the chief men of the earth, because all the nations were l
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →