Proverbs 7:21
She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
In Context
20He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.
Cross References
Judges 16:15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy great strength lieth.
2 Kings 4:8And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread; and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.
Psalms 12:2Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.
Proverbs 6:24That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.
Luke 14:23And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Acts 16:15And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
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 →