Proverbs 7:10
Then out came a woman to meet him. She was dressed as a prostitute and had deceptive intentions.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
In Context
9It was at dusk in the evening, as the light was fading and the dark night closed in.
11(She was loud and provocative, never wanting to stay at home.
Cross References
Genesis 38:14So she took off her widow's clothes and covered herself with a veil, disguising herself. She sat down beside the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. She had realized that even though Shelah had now grown up, nothing had been done about her marrying him.
2 Kings 9:22When Joram saw Jehu, he asked him, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?” “What peace can there be with so much prostitution and witchcraft caused by your mother Jezebel?” Jehu replied.
Proverbs 23:28Like a robber, she lies in wait ready to ambush men and make more of them unfaithful to their wives.
Isaiah 23:16“Take a lyre and walk around the city, forgotten prostitute! Play and sing so people will remember you!”
2 Corinthians 11:2I agonize over you with a divine kind of jealousy, for I promised you to a single husband—Christ—so that I could present you as a pure virgin to him.
Revelation 17:3Then he carried me off in the Spirit to a deserted place, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns and was covered in blasphemous names.
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 →