Proverbs 7:12
now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,
13And overtaking the youth, she kisses him, and with a provocative face, she flatters him, saying:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.
Proverbs 23:28She lies in wait along the way like a robber. And the incautious one whom she sees, she will put to death.
Jeremiah 2:33Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way,
Jeremiah 3:2Lift your eyes straight up, and see where you did not debase yourself. You were sitting in the roadways, waiting for them, like a robber in the wilderness. And you have polluted the land by your fornications and by your wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31For you have built your brothel at the head of every way, and you have made your exalted place on every street. And you have not even been like a choosy prostitute, increasing her price,
Revelation 18:23And the light of the lamp shall not shine in you again. And the voice of the groom and of the bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the leaders of the earth. For all the nations were led astray by your drugs.
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 →