Proverbes 7:10

Louis Segond

Et voici, il fut abordé par une femme Ayant la mise d'une prostituée et la ruse dans le coeur.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et voici, une femme vint au-devant de lui, par�e en femme de mauvaise vie, et pleine de ruse;

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et voici, une femme vint au-devant de lui, par�e en courtisane, et pleine de ruse.

Darby's French Translation
Et voici, une femme vint � sa rencontre, ayant la mise d'une prostitu�e et le coeur rus�.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the attire: Genesis 38:14, Genesis 38:15, 2 Kings 9:22, 2 Kings 9:30, Isaiah 3:16-24, Isaiah 23:16, Jeremiah 4:30, 1 Timothy 2:9, Revelation 17:3-5

subtle: Genesis 3:1, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:20 - General Job 24:15 - eye Proverbs 5:6 - her Proverbs 9:14 - she Proverbs 11:22 - is without Proverbs 20:16 - a strange Ezekiel 23:40 - and deckedst

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, behold, there met him a woman,.... A married woman, and an adulteress, as the following account of her shows; as soon as ever she discerned the young man before described, who she knew, by his air, walk, and dress, was a fit person for her turn, she at once set out from her house, or the corner where she stood, and met him; she did not wait till he came up and made his suit to her, but she went out, and first attacked him; wherefore the word "behold" is prefixed as a note of admiration at the impudence of the woman, and as a note of attention to observe the consequence of this affair. This woman represents the woman on a scarlet-coloured beast, the mother of harlots, who, though she pretends to be the spouse of Christ, is an arrant whore,

Revelation 17:3;

[with] the attire of a harlot; not with her face veiled, as Tamar was,

Genesis 38:14; for though that might be the sign of a harlot in the daytime, yet not in the night, as this was; rather with showy gaudy garments, such as the Athenian whores wore, or short ones, as the Romans; the word signifies one fitted to her body, neat and well shaped, to recommend her: so the woman, the whore of Rome, is said to be arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls; signifying the outward pomp and splendour of the Romish religion, designed to captivate weak and unwary minds,

Genesis 38:14- :;

and subtle of heart; mistress of all artful and intriguing methods to seduce and ensnare g; or, "reserved of heart" h, cautious and wary what she said, told everything that was encouraging, but kept back what was discouraging; or she kept her own heart to herself, while she stole the hearts of others; so the Targum renders it,

"which takes away the hearts of young men;''

and to the same purpose are the versions of the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic: the subtlety of the popes, priests, jesuits, and other emissaries of Rome, to deceive the hearts of the simple, is well known; the coming of antichrist was after the working of Satan, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, 2 Thessalonians 2:9.

g "Fallendique vias mille ministret amor", Tibullus ad Junonem, 6. v. 12. h נצרת לב "cauta corde", Tigurine version, Mercerus: Gejerus; "retento corde", Cocceius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:10. A woman with the attire of a harlot — It appears that sitting in some open place, and covering the face, or having a veil of a peculiar kind on, was the evidence of a harlot, Genesis 38:14; Genesis 38:15-19. No doubt, in Solomon's time, they had other distinctions. In all other countries, and in all times, the show of their countenance did testify against them; they declared their sin as Sodom; they hid it not. However, this does not seem to have been a mere prostitute; for she was, according to her own declaration, a married woman, and kept house, Proverbs 7:19, if her assertions relative to this were not falsehoods, and calculated the better to render him secure, and prevent the suspicion of endangering himself by cohabiting with a common woman; which I am rather inclined to think was the case, for she was subtle of heart.