Proverbs 7:12
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
13So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
Proverbs 23:28Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
Jeremiah 2:33Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift vp thine eyes vnto the hie places, and beholde, where thou hast not plaied the harlot: thou hast sit waiting for them in the waies, as the Arabian in the wildernesse: and thou hast polluted the lande with thy whoredomes, and with thy malice.
Ezekiel 16:31In that thou buildest thine hie place in the corner of euery way, and makest thine hie place in euery streete, and hast not bene as an harlot that despiseth a reward,
Revelation 18:23And the light of a candle shall shine no more in thee: and the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride shalbe heard no more in thee: for thy marchants were the great men of the earth: and with thine inchantments were deceiued 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 →