Proverbs 7:12

Proverbs chapter 7 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

Context

v.11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

v.12This passage

v.13So she caught him, and kissed him, Andwith an impudent face she said unto him:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 18:23

    and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.

  • Ezekiel 16:31

    in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.

  • Revelation 18:3

    For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

  • Jeremiah 3:2

    Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  • Proverbs 23:28

    Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

  • Jeremiah 2:20

    For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.