Proverbs 7

Treated in 4 passages across the library.

  • 7:7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding, 1
  • 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart. 1
  • 7:14 Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows. 1
  • 7:23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life. 1

American Standard Version

  1. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.7 The Seventh Commandment cites Prov 7: 23

    …s the bones. The adulterer hastens his own death. ‘Till a dart strike through his liver.’ Prov 7: 23. The Romans had their funerals at the gate of Venus’s temple, to signify that lust brings…

  2. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    Get a clear sense of the guilt, danger and evil of the sin cites Prov. vii. 7

    …d woman, that he was “among the simple ones;” he was “a young man void of understanding,” Prov. vii. 7. And wherein did his folly appear? Why, says he, in the 23d verse, “He knew not that it w…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Prov 7: 10

    …and there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot; so she caught him and kissed him.’ Prov 7: 10, 13. Better are the reproofs of a friend, than the kisses of a harlot. (3) Ministers are …

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.2 Degrees of Sin cites Prov 7: 14

    …eace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows; come let us take our fill of love.’ Prov 7: 14, 15. She speaks as if she had been at church, and had been saying her prayers: who would …