KJV King James Version
Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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Proverbs 7:12
Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
WEB World English Bible
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
ASV American Standard Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait)—
Surrounding context — Proverbs 7
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him,
14 [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
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Proverbs 23:28She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.Proverbs 9:14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,Revelation 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.Revelation 18:23And the light of a candle 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 great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.Ezekiel 16:24-25[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.Ezekiel 16:31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;Jeremiah 2:33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.Jeremiah 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.Jeremiah 2:36Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.Jeremiah 2:20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
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