Proverbs 7:12

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: (Parenthetical description of the whorish woman's characteristics.) (SHE (IS) LOUD AND STUBBORN; HER FEET ABIDE NOT IN HER HOUSE. "Stubborn." The same word as is applied to Israel represented as an untamed and refractory heifer (). Having cast off the wholesome yoke of religious and social restraints, she is ready for every sin. Instead of the soft and gentle voice of feminine modesty, she is "loud," and full of words flowing from assurance. A modest woman shrinks from undue publicity, and is a "keeper at home" (), and industrious (Proverbs 31:10); but she "wanders about from house to house" ...

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 self-ruined sinners began in disregard to God's blessed commands. We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread snares for us. Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous, because they most easily gain the heart, and close it against repentance. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it....

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....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In this chapter and the following a contrast is drawn between the adulteress and Wisdom. PROVERBS 7:1 MY SON, KEEP MY WORDS. The teacher enjoins his pupil, as in Proverbs 2:1, to observe the rules which he gives. Lay up, as a precious treasure (see on Proverbs 2:1 and Proverbs 2:7

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 di...

CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of God, not to multiply wives (Deuteronomy 17:17) his end would not have been spent in the degrading fellowship with the harlots of other nations. The description is very graphic. What the word pictures is as prominent in the great centers of Christendom as it was thousands of years ago in Babylon and Egypt. And so it is still true: _ She hath cast down many wounded;_ Yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, Going down to the chambers of death. But think of Solomon after having received these inspired descriptions and warnings, that he should have been forgetful of them all....

The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandments and the torah of the sage, that he may be preserved from the adulteress. PROVERBS 7:3 B. _cf._ 2 Corinthians 3:3, and for the opposite thought Jeremiah 17:1. Proverbs 7:4. kinswoman: lit. one well known, familiar friend, only in Ruth 2:1;...

_without … streets_ Rather, IN THE STREETS, IN THE OPEN SPACES, or SQUARES. _corner_ Where two or more ways meet, and there is therefore more likelihood of passers-by. Comp. Matthew 6:5....

CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart. 4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman; 5. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words. 6. For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; 7. And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding, 8. Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house, 9. In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In

THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....