Proverbs 7:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 23:28 : 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
  • Prov 9:14 : 14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place. 25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.
  • Rev 18:23 : 23 And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:5-11
    7 verses
    87%

    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

    7I saw among the young men one without sense,

    8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

    9At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

    10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

  • Prov 7:13
    85%

    13So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

  • Prov 9:13-16
    4 verses
    81%

    13The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

    14Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
    79%

    20Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

    21Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    79%

    21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

    22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

  • Prov 9:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

    3She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 8:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

    3Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 23:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

    28Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

  • Prov 5:8
    76%

    8Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Eccl 7:26
    75%

    26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    74%

    24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Ezek 16:32
    74%

    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 2:16
    74%

    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    74%

    3For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 30:20
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    20This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

  • Prov 2:18
    73%

    18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

  • Ps 55:11
    73%

    11Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • Prov 3:17
    72%

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 5:20
    72%

    20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 22:14
    72%

    14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Prov 27:16
    71%

    16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

  • Jer 6:7
    71%

    7As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • Job 39:29
    71%

    29Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?

  • Hos 2:6
    71%

    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

  • Prov 21:9
    71%

    9It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Hos 2:10
    70%

    10And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

  • Song 3:2
    70%

    2I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.