Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies 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.
A Conservative Version
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lays in wait at 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.
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 stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Cross References
Proverbs 23:28
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the unfaithful among men.
Proverbs 9:14
For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Jeremiah 2:20
For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 2:33
Why beautify your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why gad you about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not been lain with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your harlotries and with your wickedness.
Ezekiel 16:24-25
That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:31
In that you build your shrine at the head of every street, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, in that you scorned payment;
Revelation 18:3
For 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 have grown rich through the abundance of her luxury.
Revelation 18:23
And the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.