Proverbs 7:22

He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

In Context

21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

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Cross References

Job 13:27You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; you set a print upon the heels of my feet.

Acts 14:13Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

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 →

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