Proverbs 7:12
Who is now in the streets, now in the broad places, And lurketh near every corner.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11One noisy and unruly, Whose feet abide not in her house;
13She caught hold of him and kissed him, And with a shameless face said to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8He was passing through the street near her corner, And was going the way to her house,
Proverbs 23:28Like a robber she lieth in wait, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Jeremiah 2:33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? On this account hast thou accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes to the high places, and see! Where hast thou not been defiled? In the ways hast thou sat waiting, As the Arabian in the desert, And hast polluted the land by thy lewdness and thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31in that thou didst build thine arched place at the head of every way, and make thy high place in every street! Thou wast not like a harlot, who scoffeth at her hire,
Revelation 18:23and the light of a lamp shall shine no more in thee, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard in thee no more; for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.
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 →