Proverbs 7:21
With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
In Context
20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.
2 Kings 4:8Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.
Psalms 12:2\12:1\Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.
Proverbs 6:24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Luke 14:23And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.
Acts 16:15And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.
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 →