Proverbs 7:8

English Revised Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Crossing the street near her corner,he strolled down the road to her house

Hebrew Names Version
Passing through the street near her corner, He went the way to her house,

King James Version
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

English Standard Version
passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

New Century Version
He was walking down the street near the corner on the road leading to her house.

New English Translation
He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

Amplified Bible
Passing through the street near her corner; And he took the path to her house

New American Standard Bible
Passing through the street near her corner; And he walks along the way to her house,

World English Bible
Passing through the street near her corner, He went the way to her house,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

Legacy Standard Bible
Passing through the street near her corner;And he strides along the way to her house,

Berean Standard Bible
crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

Contemporary English Version
It was late in the evening, sometime after dark.

Complete Jewish Bible
He crosses the street near her corner and continues on toward her house.

Darby Translation
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Easy-to-Read Version
He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house.

George Lamsa Translation
Passing through the street near the corner of her house,

Good News Translation
He was walking along the street near the corner where a certain woman lived. He was passing near her house

Lexham English Bible
passing on the street at her corner, and he takes the road to her house,

Literal Translation
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
goinge ouer the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde the harlottes house

American Standard Version
Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

Bible in Basic English
Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;

King James Version (1611)
Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Goyng ouer the streate by the corner in the way towarde her house

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and speaking, in the dark of the evening,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that passith bi the stretis, bisidis the corner; and he

Update Bible Version
Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

Webster's Bible Translation
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house.

New King James Version
Passing along the street near her corner; And he took the path to her house

New Living Translation
He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman, strolling down the path by her house.

New Life Bible
He passed through the street near her corner and took the path to her house,

New Revised Standard
passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Passing through the street, near her corner, and, on the way to her house, he sauntered along;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,

Revised Standard Version
passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

Young's Literal Translation
Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,

Contextual Overview

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; ⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, ⁸ Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house; ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. ¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart. ¹¹ She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house: ¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner. ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him: ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Passing through the street near her corner,.... The house of the harlot that stood in a corner to take in persons that came both ways; to come near which is dangerous; this was putting himself in the way of temptation; or the corner of the street where she stood to pick up young men; it could be with no good design to walk the streets in the night, and to go where harlots haunt, and where they dwell or stand; or, however, it was exposing himself to danger, and, had he took the wise man's advice, would not have done it, Proverbs 5:8; we should abstain from all appearance of evil, and from everything that leads to sin; and as to immorality and uncleanness, so to false doctrine and false worship; the synagogues of Satan and Popish chapels should be avoided;

and he went the way to her house; that led directly to her house, which shows a bad intention; and if his design was not to commit fornication, yet to gratify his lusts by looks, dalliances, and impure discourse with her; and hither he went in a set, stately manner, as the word f signifies; with an air pleasing to the harlot, as a beau and fop of the town; and by which air and gait he was known by her to be a proper person to attack.

f יצעד "intelligitur incessus, compositus et pomposus", Piscator; "magnis et patheticis possibus", Michaelis; "est aliquid grande et audax in verbo", Schultens.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:8. He went the way to her house. — She appears to have had a corner house sufficiently remarkable; and a way from the main street to it.