Proverbs 9:15
To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
In Context
14Sat at the door of her house, upon a seat, in a high place of the city,
16He that is a little one, let him turn to me. And to the fool she said:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:13And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
Proverbs 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:14-18
The Invitation of Folly. 13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: 16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. We have heard what… Read the whole commentary →