Proverbs 7:12

In 11 translations

BSB

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

KJV

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

WEB

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

ASV

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

LSV

Now in an out-place, now in broad places, || And she lies in wait near every corner)—

YLT

Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) —

DBY

now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.

DRC

Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.

GNV

Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

JPS

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.

LXXE

For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.

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Original-language editions

WLC

פַּ֤עַם ׀ בַּח֗וּץ פַּ֥עַם בָּרְחֹב֑וֹת וְאֵ֖צֶל כָּל־פִּנָּ֣ה תֶאֱרֹֽב׃

LXX-Br

Χρόνον γάρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται, χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 23:28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
• Proverbs 9:14She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
• Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
• Jeremiah 3:2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with…
• Ezekiel 16:31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
• Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived…
• Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
• Ezekiel 16:24–25you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs…
• Jeremiah 2:20“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
• Jeremiah 2:33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

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