Proverbs 7:21
She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
In Context
20A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she saith unto him, 'How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power [is].'
2 Kings 4:8And the day cometh that Elisha passeth over unto Shunem, and there [is] a great woman, and she layeth hold on him to eat bread, and it cometh to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turneth aside thither to eat bread,
Psalms 12:2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Proverbs 6:24To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Luke 14:23'And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;
Acts 16:15and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, 'If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us.
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 →