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New King James Version

Proverbs 7:12

At times she was outside, at times in the open square, Lurking at every corner.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hypocrisy;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Men;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Harlot;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gate;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now in the street, now in the squares,she lurks at every corner.
Hebrew Names Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
English Standard Version
now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
New Century Version
She was always out in the streets or in the city squares, waiting around on the corners of the streets.
New English Translation
at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
Amplified Bible
At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places, Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.
New American Standard Bible
She is now in the streets, now in the public squares, And lurks by every corner.
World English Bible
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
Legacy Standard Bible
Stepping in the streets, stepping in the squares,And near every corner she lies in wait.
Berean Standard Bible
Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
Contemporary English Version
who walk street after street, waiting to trap a man.
Complete Jewish Bible
rather, she stalks the streets and squares, lurking at every streetcorner.
Darby Translation
now without, now in the broadways,—and she lieth in wait at every corner.
Easy-to-Read Version
She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap.
George Lamsa Translation
But she roams around outside, now in the streets, and now lying in wait at the corners.
Good News Translation
or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.
Lexham English Bible
Now in the street, now in the square, at every corner she lies in wait.
Literal Translation
At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner)
American Standard Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
Bible in Basic English
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
King James Version (1611)
Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe is she without, nowe in the streates, and lyeth in wayte at euery corner.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
English Revised Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and now without forth, now in stretis, now bisidis corneris sche `aspieth.
Update Bible Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lies in wait at every corner.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
New Living Translation
She is often in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner.
New Life Bible
She is now in the street, now in the center of town where people gather. She lies in wait at every corner.
New Revised Standard
now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now outside, now in the broadways, and, near every corner, she lieth in wait:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
Revised Standard Version
now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
Young's Literal Translation
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She is now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner.

Contextual Overview

6 For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice, 7 And saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man devoid of understanding, 8 Passing along the street near her corner; And he took the path to her house 9 In the twilight, in the evening, In the black and dark night. 10 And there a woman met him, With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart. 11 She was loud and rebellious, Her feet would not stay at home. 12 At times she was outside, at times in the open square, Lurking at every corner. 13 So she caught him and kissed him; With an impudent face she said to him: 14 "I have peace offerings with me; Today I have paid my vows. 15 So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 9:14, Proverbs 23:28, Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 2:33, Jeremiah 2:36, Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 16:24, Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 16:31, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:14 - and sat

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
Genesis 7:17
Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
So Moses went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
Deuteronomy 10:10
"As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the LORD also heard me at that time, and the LORD chose not to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now [is she] without,.... The word for whore is sometimes rendered in the Targum i one that goes abroad, or without her house; sitting or standing at the door of it, in an idle posture, and in order to invite her lovers in; and if she can get none this way, or quickly, grows impatient: she is

now in the streets; takes her walks abroad in the streets of the city, to see who she can light of, to pick up and bring home;

and lieth in wait at every corner; of the street, where more ways meet, sometimes at one corner, and sometimes at another, that she may take all that comes; sometimes she is "without" in the fields, and in the country, to see what she can meet with there; and sometimes in the "streets" of the city, and in the populous places of it, in the markets, and courts, and in every private corner, trying all ways to gain lovers, and satisfy her lust k: all which may represent the diligence and industry, art and cunning, of the Romish emissaries to gain proselytes to their idolatrous worship, who everywhere lie in wait to deceive.

i Targ. Onk. in Gen. xxxiv. 31. k "Mille modi veneris", Ovid de Arte Amandi, l. 3. prope finem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:12. Now is she without — She is continually exposing herself, and showing by her gait and gestures what she is, and what she wants. These two verses are a parenthesis, intended to show the character of the woman.


 
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