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Proverbs 7:11

Proverbs 7:11
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Now is she without,.... The word for whore is sometimes rendered in the Targum (i) one that goes abroad, or without her house; sitting or standing at the door of it, in an idle posture, and in order…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Loud and stubborn - Both words describe the half-animal signs of a vicious nature. Compare Hos 4:16.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Proverbs 7:6-23

Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

loud or clamorous, R.V., as the word is rendered in the parallel passage Pro 9:13, A.V.

stubborn Rather, refractory, like a restive animal, as the same Heb. word is used of a heifer that casts off all…