Proverbs 7:12
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, || And she lies in wait near every corner)—
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house.
13And she laid hold on him and kissed him, || She has hardened her face and says to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Passing on in the street, near her corner, || And the way [to] her house he steps,
Proverbs 23:28She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men.
Jeremiah 2:33Why do you make your ways pleasing to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the wicked your ways.
Jeremiah 3:2“Lift your eyes to the high places, and see, || Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them on the ways, || As an Arab in a wilderness, || And you defile the land, || By your fornications, and by your wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31In your building your arch at the head of every way, || You have made your high place in every broad place, || And have not been as a whore deriding a wage.
Revelation 18:23and light of a lamp may not shine at all in you anymore; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in you anymore; because your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were led astray in 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 →