Proverbs 7:12

World English Bible (2000)

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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  • Prov 23:28 : 28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
  • Prov 9:14 : 14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 "For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, 'I will not serve;' for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Jer 3:2 : 2 "Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
  • Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street. 25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.
  • Ezek 16:31 : 31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
  • Rev 18:23 : 23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

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  • Prov 7:5-11
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    5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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

    7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

    8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

    9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

    10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

    11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

  • 13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

  • Prov 9:13-16
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    13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

    14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

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

    16 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

    21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

  • Prov 7:21-22
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    21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

    22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

  • Prov 9:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2 She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

    3 She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

    4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 8:2-3
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    2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

    3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

    26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

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

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    27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

    28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

  • 8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

  • 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    74%

    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • 32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

    4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

    5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

    6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • 20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

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

  • 11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

  • 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

  • 16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

  • 7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

  • 29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

  • 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

  • 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

  • 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

  • 2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.