Proverbs 7:22

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks. "Straightway" implies the youth's precipitancy, and his rash inconsiderateness as to the grievousness of the sin and its penalty: "as the ox goeth to the slaughter," full of alacrity, because he fancies he is being led to the stall or to the pasturage. "As a fool to the correction of the stocks" - literally, 'as the stocks,' or 'fetters (go) to the correction of the fool' or 'malefactor;' as the fetter or stocks wherewith he is punished follow his foot. The youth sports with his fetters, or is proud of them, and thinks they are put on him as an ornament, or in play (Gejer). The same Hebrew [ `ªkaaciym (H5914)] is used for "tinkling ornaments" on the feet of women (Isaiah 3:16), as here expresses fetters or "stocks." Solomon implies the harlot's tinkling ornaments on her feet provoked the youth with their sound, calling his attention to her gait and form. All the while he knows not that the tinkling ornament on her feet will prove his own fetter (Cornelius a Lapide). 'To love one's fetters, though they be of gold, is the part of a fool' (Seneca).