Proverbs 7:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:3 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
  • Judg 16:15-17 : 15 And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power `is'.' 16 And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death, 17 that he declareth to her all his heart, and saith to her, `A razor hath not gone up on my head, for a Nazarite to God I `am' from the womb of my mother; if I have been shaven, then hath my power turned aside from me, and I have been weak, and have been as any of the human race.'
  • 1 Sam 28:23 : 23 And he refuseth, and saith, `I do not eat;' and his servants urge on him, and also the woman, and he hearkeneth to their voice, and riseth from the earth, and sitteth on the bed.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 And the day cometh that Elisha passeth over unto Shunem, and there `is' a great woman, and she layeth hold on him to eat bread, and it cometh to pass, at the time of his passing over, he turneth aside thither to eat bread,
  • Prov 7:5 : 5 To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
  • Luke 14:23 : 23 `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled;
  • Luke 24:29 : 29 and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us.
  • 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
  • Prov 6:24 : 24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:22-23
    2 verses
    84%

    22 He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

    23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

  • Prov 7:10-13
    4 verses
    80%

    10 And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

    11 Noisy she `is', and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

    12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

    13 And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

  • Prov 2:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

    17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

    18 For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

  • 20 A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

  • 8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way `to' her house he doth step,

  • 5 To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25 Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

    26 For many `are' the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty `are' all her slain ones.

    27 The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

  • Prov 5:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil `is' her mouth,

    4 And her latter end `is' bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword `with' mouths.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

    24 To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25 Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

    26 For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

  • 26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

  • Prov 5:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

    20 And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

  • 20 So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

  • 32 The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

  • 8 Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

  • 14 A deep pit `is' the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

  • 28 She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

  • 16 `And when a man doth entice a virgin who `is' not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

  • 16 `Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,

  • 14 and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

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    42 And the voice of a multitude at ease `is' with her, And unto men of the common people are brought in Sabeans from the wilderness, And they put bracelets on their hands, And a beauteous crown on their heads.

    43 And I say of the worn-out one in adulteries, Now they commit her whoredoms -- she also!

  • 17 Her ways `are' ways of pleasantness, And all her paths `are' peace.

  • 17 And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

  • 26 Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness `is' on her tongue.

  • 4 `Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

  • 22 A ring of gold in the nose of a sow -- A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

  • 14 And he hath not been willing to hearken to her voice, and is stronger than she, and humbleth her, and lieth with her.

  • 15 What -- to My beloved in My house, Her doing wickedness with many, And the holy flesh do pass over from thee? When thou dost evil, then thou exultest.

  • 21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:

  • 16 Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

  • 17 And he setteth his face to go in with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; and he hath wrought, and the daughter of women he giveth to him, to corrupt her; and she doth not stand, nor is for him.

  • 6 The path of life -- lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths -- thou knowest not.

  • 29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

  • 7 And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For -- better to me then than now.

  • 16 And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

  • 10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.

  • 3 Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

  • 33 Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.