Proverbs 7:12
She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets, waiting to trap some man.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious; she [SYN] never stayed at home.
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8He crossed the street near the house of an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house
Proverbs 23:28They wait for you like robbers [SIM], and they cause many men to ◄be unfaithful to/have sex with women who are not► their wives.
Jeremiah 2:33You know how to easily find gods from other countries whom you can love. You can find them as easily as a prostitute can find men to sleep with.
Jeremiah 3:2“Look up at the barren hilltops. On every hilltop there are [RHQ] idols that you have worshiped. It is as though they are all lovers with whom you have had sex. It is as though you have sat along the roadsides like an Arab, waiting to attack and steal things from those who pass by. Because of worshiping idols and all the other wicked things that you have done, you have caused the entire land to become unacceptable to me.
Ezekiel 16:31When you built shrines to worship idols on every street corner and in every city square/plaza, you were not like a prostitute: Prostitutes charge money, but you refused to take money for what you did.
Revelation 18:23No lamplight will ever again shine. There will never again be the happy voices of a bridegroom and his bride. God will destroy your cities because your merchants were the most deceitful men in the world. You persuaded them to deceive people of [MTY] all nations.
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 →