Proverbs 7:12
now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
13And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Proverbs 23:28She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Jeremiah 2:33How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward,
Revelation 18:23and light of lamp shall shine no more at all in thee, and voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard no more at all in thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery have all the nations been deceived.
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 →