Proverbs 7:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:27 : 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
  • Jer 20:2 : 2 And Pashhur gave blows to Jeremiah and had his feet chained in a framework of wood in the higher doorway of Benjamin, which was in the house of the Lord.
  • Acts 14:13 : 13 And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.
  • Acts 16:24 : 24 And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.

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  • Prov 7:20-21
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    20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.

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

  • Prov 7:23
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    23Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • Prov 7:7-8
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    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,

  • Prov 7:10-13
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    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.

    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

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

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    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.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    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
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    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.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

  • Prov 9:16
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    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 9:4
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    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Hos 2:6-7
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    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.

    7And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

  • Prov 2:16-19
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    16To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

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

    19Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

  • Prov 5:19-21
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    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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

    21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    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 22:14-15
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    14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

    15Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

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

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 7:5
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    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 30:19-20
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    19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

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

  • Prov 17:12
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    12It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

  • Prov 14:7
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    7Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

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    7The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

  • Song 1:8
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    8If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

  • Prov 26:9
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    9Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.

  • Job 18:8
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    8His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

  • Prov 26:11
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    11Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.