Proverbs 7:12
Now outside, now in the broadways, and, near every corner, she lieth in wait:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11Boisterous, is she, and rebellious, In her house, abide not her feet;
13So she caught him, and kissed him, and, embolding her face, she said to him:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Passing through the street, near her corner, and, on the way to her house, he sauntered along;
Proverbs 23:28Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
Jeremiah 2:33How thou dost make winsome thy way, to seek love! Therefore, even unto wicked women, hast thou taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights and see—where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian in the desert,—and hast defiled the land with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31That thou couldst have built thy brothel at the head of every road, And thy height, couldst have made in every broadway,- Yet becamest not as a harlot to lay claim to a harlot’s hire.
Revelation 18:23And light of lamp,—in nowise shine in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and bride,—in nowise be heard in thee any more; because, thy merchants, were the great ones of the earth, because, with 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 →