Proverbs 7:22
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
21With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
Cross References
Job 13:27And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet;
Acts 14:13And the priest of Jupiter who was before the city, having brought bulls and garlands to the gates, would have done sacrifice along with the crowds.
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 →