Proverbs 7:12
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
13So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
Proverbs 23:28Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Jeremiah 2:33With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.
Jeremiah 3:2Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
Ezekiel 16:31For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.
Revelation 18:23And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.
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 →