Proverbs 7:12
At one time she is in the street, at another in the open places, and near every corner doth she lurk,)
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11(She is noisy and ungovernable; in her house her feet never rest;
13And she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8He was passing through the market-place near her corner; and he stepped along on the way to her house,
Proverbs 23:28She also lieth in wait like a robber, and she increaseth the treacherous among men.
Jeremiah 2:33Why ornamentest thou thy way to seek for love? truly even the worst hast thou used thyself as thy ways.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thy eyes unto the mountain-tops, and see where thou hast not been lain with. On public roads hast thou sat for them, as the Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy incests and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31Seeing that thou didst build thy eminences at the corner of every road, and make thy elevations in every street; and wast not like a harlot, as thou scornedst the wages.
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 →