Proverbs 7:11
Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
In Context
12Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
Cross References
Proverbs 9:13A foolish woman and clamorous, and full of allurements, and knowing nothing at all,
Proverbs 27:14He that blesseth his neighbour with a loud voice, rising in the night, shall be like to him that curseth.
1 Timothy 5:13And withal being idle they learn to go about from house to house: and are not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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 →