Proverbs 7:22

Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

In Context

21She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.

23Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.

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Cross References

Job 13:27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Acts 14:13Which, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul had heard, rending their clothes, they leaped out among the people, crying,

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 →

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