Proverbs 7:21

So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

20having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.

22And he followed her, being gently led on, and that as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

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Cross References

Judges 16:15And Dalida said to Sampson, How say you, I love you, when your heart is not with me? this third time you have deceived me, and have not told me wherein is your great strength.

2 Kings 4:8And a day came, when Elisaie passed over to Soman, and there was a great lady there, and she constrained him to eat bread: and it came to pass as often as he went into the city, that he turned aside to eat there.

Psalms 12:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 1

Proverbs 6:24to keep you continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

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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