Proverbs 7:12
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
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- 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.
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5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
7 I saw among the young men one without sense,
8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
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13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
- Prov 9:13-164 verses81%
13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.
14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,
15 Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:
16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:
- Prov 1:20-212 verses79%
20 Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;
21 Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
- Prov 7:21-222 verses79%
21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
- Prov 9:2-43 verses79%
2 She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.
3 She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,
4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:
- Prov 8:2-32 verses78%
2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;
3 Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:
- Prov 7:25-273 verses76%
25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
26 For 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.
27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
- Prov 23:27-282 verses76%
27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
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8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
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26 And 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.
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24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
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32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
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16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
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3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
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20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.
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18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
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11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
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17 Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
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20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
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14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
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16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
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7 As 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.
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29 Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?
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6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
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9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
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10 And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.
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2 I 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.