Proverbs 7:22

He is going after her straight away, he comes as an ox to the slaughter, || And as a chain to the discipline of a fool,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

In Context

21She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, || She forces him with the flattery of her lips.

23Until an arrow splits his liver, || As a bird has hurried to a snare, || And has not known that it [is] for its life.

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Cross References

Job 13:27And you put my feet in the stocks, || And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,

Acts 14:13And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, having brought oxen and garlands to the porches, wished to sacrifice with the multitudes,

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 →

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