Proverbs 7:11
unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
In Context
12now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:13A foolish and loud woman, who is full of enticements and who knows nothing at all,
Proverbs 27:14Whoever blesses his neighbor with a grand voice, rising in the night, shall be like one who curses.
1 Timothy 5:13And being at the same time also idle, they learn to go from house to house, being not only idle, but also talkative and curious, speaking of things which do not concern them.
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 →