💡WEB · Proverbs 7:8

What does Proverbs 7:8 mean?

"passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,"

— Proverbs 7:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

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I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

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passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

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She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

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