Proverbs 7:12
Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
13She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
Proverbs 23:28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Jeremiah 2:33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
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 →