Proverbs 7:12
One moment she'd be walking the streets, the next she'd be there in the town squares, loitering at every corner.)
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11(She was loud and provocative, never wanting to stay at home.
13She grabbed hold of him and kissed him, and with a bold face she told him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8He was walking down the street near the corner where she lived and took the road passing her house.
Proverbs 23:28Like a robber, she lies in wait ready to ambush men and make more of them unfaithful to their wives.
Jeremiah 2:33How cleverly you look for your lovers! Even prostitutes could learn something from you!
Jeremiah 3:2Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there anywhere that you haven't had sex? You sat at the roadside like someone from the desert waiting for your lovers to pass by. You have made the land unclean with your prostitution and evil.
Ezekiel 16:31Actually you weren't even a normal prostitute when you built yourselves pagan shrines at the top of every street and high places of idol worship on every public square—because you refused to be paid for your services!
Revelation 18:23Never again will the light of a lamp shine in you. Never again will the voices of bridegroom and bride be heard in you. Your traders led the world. Through your witchcraft all the nations were deceived.
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 →