Proverbs 7:12
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Proverbs 7:12 in other translations
| BSB | Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. |
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| WEB | Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. |
| ASV | Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.) |
| YLT | Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) -- |
| DARBY | now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner. |
| BBE | Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road. |
| Webster | Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) |
What does Proverbs 7:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:11-12
11-12. loud--or, "noisy," "bustling." stubborn--not submissive. without ... streets, ... corner--(Compare 1Ti 5:13; Tit 2:5).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27
Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same…
Proverbs 7:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:12
- Proverbs 23:28
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
- Proverbs 9:14
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
- Revelation 18:3
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
- Jeremiah 2:33
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
- Jeremiah 2:36
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
- Ezekiel 16:31
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
- Revelation 18:23
And the light of a candle 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 great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
- Ezekiel 16:24-25
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
- Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
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Context
- Proverbs 7:11
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
- Proverbs 7:12
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
- Proverbs 7:13
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Proverbs 7:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Unas veces de fuera, ó bien por las plazas, acechando por todas las esquinas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | elle était tantôt dehors, tantôt sur les places, et guettait à tous les coins. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | bald ist sie draußen, bald auf den Straßen, und neben jeder Ecke lauert sie. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | nunc foris, nunc in plateis, nunc juxta angulos insidians. |