Proverbs 7:12
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
13So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
Proverbs 23:28Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful amongst men.
Jeremiah 2:33How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.
Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you, for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were 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 →