Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Holman Bible
she lurks at every corner.
International Standard Version
Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner.
American Standard Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.
Amplified
At times she was in the streets, at times in the market places,
Lurking and setting her ambush at every corner.
Bible in Basic English
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
Darby Translation
now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.
Julia Smith Translation
One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.
King James 2000
Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now in the street, now in the square, {at} every corner she lies in wait.
Modern King James verseion
now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.
NET Bible
at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
New Heart English Bible
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
The Emphasized Bible
Now outside, now in the broadways, and, near every corner, she lieth in wait:
Webster
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
World English Bible
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
Youngs Literal Translation
Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
Themes
Harlot (prostitute) » Shamelessness of
Whoredom » Who falls victim to whores
Interlinear
Pa`am
Chuwts
Pa`am
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Story Of Seduction
11 She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house. 12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at every corner. 13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him,
Cross References
Proverbs 9:14
And she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Jeremiah 2:20
For from old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds. And thou said, I will not serve, for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou bowed thyself, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 2:33
How thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women thou have taught thy ways.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do thou gad about so much to change thy way? Thou shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou were ashamed of Assyria.
Ezekiel 16:24-25
that thou have built thyself a vaulted place, and have made thee a lofty place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:31
in that thou build thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and make thy lofty place in every street. And have not [even] been as a harlot, in that thou scorn hire.
Revelation 18:3
Because all the nations have drunk from the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth fornicated with her, and the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her wantonness.
Revelation 18:23
And the light of a lamp will, no, not shine in thee any more. And a voice of a bridegroom and of a bride will, no, not be heard in thee any more. Because thy merchants were the chief men of the earth, because all the nations were l