Proverbs 7:22

American Standard Version (1901)

He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:27 : 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
  • Jer 20:2 : 2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.
  • Acts 14:13 : 13 And the priest of Jupiter whose [temple] was before the city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the multitudes.
  • Acts 16:24 : 24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

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    23Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

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    7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

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    10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

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    25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

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  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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    22[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

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    16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

    17That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

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    19[ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

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    19The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.

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    27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.