Proverbs 7:11
She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
In Context
10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:13The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
Proverbs 27:14He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
1 Timothy 5:13And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.
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 →