Proverbs 7:12
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) —
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
In Context
11Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.
13And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,
Proverbs 23:28She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
Jeremiah 2:33What — dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 3:2Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:31In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And — hast not been as a whore deriding a gift.
Revelation 18:23and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,
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 →