Proverbs 7:22
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Cross References
Job 13:27And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
Acts 14:13And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.
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 →