Proverbs 7:10
And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart,
Literal Standard 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
9In the twilight—in the evening of day, || In the darkness of night and blackness.
11She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house.
Cross References
Genesis 38:14and she turns aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covers herself with a veil, and wraps herself up, and sits in the opening of Enayim, which [is] by the way to Timnath, for she has seen that Shelah has grown up, and she has not been given to him for a wife.
2 Kings 9:22And it comes to pass, at Jehoram’s seeing Jehu, that he says, “Is there peace, Jehu?” And he says, “What [is] the peace, while the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel, and her witchcrafts, are many?”
Proverbs 23:28She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men.
Isaiah 23:16Take a harp, go around the city, O forgotten harlot, play well, || Multiply song that you may be remembered.
2 Corinthians 11:2for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I betrothed you to one Husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
Revelation 17:3and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of slander, having seven heads and ten horns,
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 →