Proverbs 9:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

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  • Prov 9:3 : 3 She has sent out her maidens: she cries out on the highest places of the city,
  • Prov 7:10-12 : 10 And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. 11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home: 12 Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

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  • 13 A foolish woman is loud: she is simple, and knows nothing.

  • Prov 9:1-4
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    1 Wisdom has built her house, she has carved out her seven pillars:

    2 She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

    3 She has sent out her maidens: she cries out on the highest places of the city,

    4 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 8:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding raise her voice?

    2 She stands on the top of high places, by the way where the paths meet.

    3 She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entrance of the doors.

  • Prov 9:15-16
    2 verses
    82%

    15 To call those who pass by who go straight on their ways:

    16 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20 Wisdom cries out outside; she raises her voice in the streets;

    21 She cries out in the chief places of concourse, at the openings of the gates; she speaks her words in the city, saying,

  • Prov 7:10-13
    4 verses
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    10 And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.

    11 She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:

    12 Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

    13 So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

  • 1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands.

  • 9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • 8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

  • 8 Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house,

  • Prov 7:5-6
    2 verses
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    5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

    6 For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,

  • 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

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    22 She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

    23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

  • 24 It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than in a wide house with a contentious woman.

  • 27 She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

  • 18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

    26 For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, many strong men have been slain by her.

    27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

  • 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square!

  • 34 Blessed is the one who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

  • 28 It dwells on the rock and resides on the crag of the rock, in the stronghold.

  • 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Prov 4:8-9
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    8 Exalt her, and she will promote you: she will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

    9 She will give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver to you.

  • 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  • 6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them.

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    27 For a prostitute is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

    28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.

  • 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.

  • 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

  • 7 Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the gate.

  • 31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;

  • 19 She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

  • 22 He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • 18 When she lifts herself on high, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

  • 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.

  • 22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman without discretion.