Proverbs 7:10
And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
In Context
9In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
11Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
Cross References
Genesis 38:14And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.
2 Kings 9:22And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace ? so long as the fornications of Jezabel thy mother, and her many sorceries are in their vigour.
Proverbs 23:28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
Isaiah 23:16Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered.
2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Revelation 17:3And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
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 →