Proverbs 7:12
Now in the streets, then in the market place, 1 and at every corner she waited in ambush. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She was loud and wayward; 1 her feet did not stay at home. 1
13So she grabbed him and kissed him, 1 with a strong face she said to him, 1
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8That young man passed down the street near her corner, 1 and he went toward her house. 1
Proverbs 23:28She lies in wait like a robber 1 and she increases the number of the treacherous among humanity. 1
Jeremiah 2:33How well you make your way to look for love. 1 You have even taught your ways to wicked women. 1
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and look! Is there any place where you have not had illicit sex? 1 By the roadsides you sat waiting for your lovers, as an Arab in the wilderness. 1 You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness. 1
Ezekiel 16:31You have built your high places at the head of every street and made your vaulted chamber in every public place. Yet you were not like a prostitute because you refused to take payment.
Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp 2 will not shine in you anymore. 1 The voices of the bridegroom and the bride 2 will not be heard in you anymore, 1 for your merchants were the princes of the earth, 2 and the nations were deceived by your sorcery. 1
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 →