Proverbs 7:21
She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, || She forces him with the flattery of her lips.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
In Context
20He has taken a bag of money in his hand, || At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she says to him, “How do you say, I have loved you, and your heart is not with me? These three times you have played on me, and have not declared to me wherein your great power [is].”
2 Kings 4:8And the day comes that Elisha passes over to Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she lays hold on him to eat bread, and it comes to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turns aside there to eat bread,
Psalms 12:2They each speak vanity with his neighbor, || Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Proverbs 6:24To preserve you from an evil woman, || From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Luke 14:23And the lord said to the servant, Go forth into the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;
Acts 16:15and when she was immersed, and her household, she called on us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the LORD, having entered into my house, remain”; and she constrained us.
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 →