Proverbs 7:12
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:
13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;
Proverbs 23:28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Jeremiah 2:33How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire.
Revelation 18:23and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for 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 →