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Proverbs 7:10
10All of a sudden, a woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute and with a cunning heart.
Proverbs 7:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
- New International Version (NIV)Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And there a woman met him, With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.
Context of Proverbs 7:10
8crossing the street near her corner, walking in the direction of her house, 9in the twilight of the evening, in the darkest hours of the night. All of a sudden, a woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute and with a cunning heart. 11She is loud and defiant. Her feet never stay at home— 12now in the streets, now in the squares, at every corner she lurks.
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:10 word by word
וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִ֭שָּׁה לִקְרָאת֑וֹ שִׁ֥ית ז֝וֹנָ֗ה וּנְצֻ֥רַת לֵֽב׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 7:10
- Genesis 38:14And she removed her widow’s clothes from herself, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat by the entrance to the springs on the way to Timnah (for she saw that Shelah had grown up and she had not been given to him as a wife).
- 2 Kings 9:22Now when Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Is it peace, Jehu?” So he answered, “What peace, so long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?”
- Isaiah 3:16Moreover Adonai says: “Since the Daughters of Zion are proud, and walk with outstretched necks and seductive eyes, walking and mincing as they go, making a jingling with their feet,
- Isaiah 23:16“Take a harp, stroll about the city, forgotten harlot! Skillfully play many songs, so you may be remembered.”
- Jeremiah 4:30And you, O desolate one, what will you do? Though you dress in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold ornaments though you enlarge your eyes with paint—in vain you make yourself beautiful— your lovers despise you, they seek your life.
- 1 Timothy 2:9Likewise, women are to adorn themselves in appropriate clothing with modesty and sound judgment—not in seductive hairstyles and gold or pearls or costly clothing,
- Revelation 17:3So he carried me away in the Ruach into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
- Genesis 3:1But the serpent was shrewder than any animal of the field that Adonai Elohim made. So it said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from all the trees of the garden’?”
- 2 Corinthians 11:2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I betrothed you to one husband, to present you to Messiah as a pure virgin.
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10A 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-27Verses 6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The woman, dressed attractively, appears nice on the outside but has many problems inside.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. attire--that of harlots was sometimes peculiar. subtile--or, "wary," "cunning."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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