Proverbs 7:12
For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
13Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
Proverbs 23:28For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
Jeremiah 2:33What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou hast done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thine high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.
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 →