Proverbs 7:12
Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
13And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.
Proverbs 23:28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
Jeremiah 2:33Why dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways,
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostuted thyself: Thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,
Revelation 18:23And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth, for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments.
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 →