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Thursday, July 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 7:10

Then a woman approaches him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Heart;   Hypocrisy;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Harlots;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Men;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Prostitution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Harlot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Attire;   Crime;   Harlot;   Subtil;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A woman came to meet himdressed like a prostitute,having a hidden agenda.
Hebrew Names Version
Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.
King James Version
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
English Standard Version
And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
New Century Version
Then the woman approached him, dressed like a prostitute and planning to trick him.
New English Translation
Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
Amplified Bible
And there a woman met him, Dressed as a prostitute and sly and cunning of heart.
New American Standard Bible
And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a prostitute and cunning of heart.
World English Bible
Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
Legacy Standard Bible
And behold, a woman comes to meet him,Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
Berean Standard Bible
Then a woman came out to meet him, with attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
Contemporary English Version
She was dressed fancy like a woman of the street with only one thing in mind.
Darby Translation
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him.
George Lamsa Translation
And, behold, there came out a woman with the attire of a harlot to meet one of them, a woman who fluttered the hearts of young men.
Good News Translation
And then she met him; she was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans.
Lexham English Bible
Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute and a secret heart.
Literal Translation
And, behold, a woman came to meet him, with a harlot's dress, and a guarded heart;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And beholde, there mett him a woma in an harlottes apparell
American Standard Version
And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
Bible in Basic English
And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
King James Version (1611)
And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And behold there met hym a woman with open tokens of an harlot, onlye her heart was hid:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
English Revised Version
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And lo! a womman, maad redi with ournement of an hoore to disseyue soulis, meetith hym, and sche is a ianglere, and goynge about,
Update Bible Version
And, look, there met him a woman With the attire of a prostitute, and wily of heart.
Webster's Bible Translation
And behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
New King James Version
And there a woman met him, With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.
New Living Translation
The woman approached him, seductively dressed and sly of heart.
New Life Bible
See, a woman comes to meet him. She is dressed like a woman who sells the use of her body, and with a heart that wants to fool and trap someone.
New Revised Standard
Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And lo! a woman, came to meet him, attired as one unchaste, of a wily heart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot’s attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering,
Revised Standard Version
And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.
Young's Literal Translation
And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.

Contextual Overview

6 For I was at the window of my house, glancing out through the lattice, 7 when I saw among the young men there, among those who don't think for themselves, a young fellow devoid of all sense. 8 He crosses the street near her corner and continues on toward her house. 9 Dusk turns into evening, and finally night, dark and black. 10 Then a woman approaches him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. 11 She's the coarse, impulsive type, whose feet don't stay at home; 12 rather, she stalks the streets and squares, lurking at every streetcorner. 13 She grabs him, gives him a kiss, and, brazen-faced, she says to him, 14 "I had to offer peace sacrifices, and I fulfilled my vows today. 15 This is why I came out to meet you, to look for you; now I've found you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the attire: Genesis 38:14, Genesis 38:15, 2 Kings 9:22, 2 Kings 9:30, Isaiah 3:16-24, Isaiah 23:16, Jeremiah 4:30, 1 Timothy 2:9, Revelation 17:3-5

subtle: Genesis 3:1, 2 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Corinthians 11:3

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:20 - General Job 24:15 - eye Proverbs 5:6 - her Proverbs 9:14 - she Proverbs 11:22 - is without Proverbs 20:16 - a strange Ezekiel 23:40 - and deckedst

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.
Genesis 7:4
For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the earth."
Genesis 7:17
(iii) The flood was forty days on the earth; the water grew higher and floated the ark, so that it was lifted up off the earth.
Genesis 7:20
the water covered the mountains by more than twenty-two-and-a-half feet.
Job 22:16
the ones snatched away before their time, whose foundations a flood swept away?
Luke 17:27
People ate and drank, and men and women married, right up until the day Noach entered the ark; then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And, behold, there met him a woman,.... A married woman, and an adulteress, as the following account of her shows; as soon as ever she discerned the young man before described, who she knew, by his air, walk, and dress, was a fit person for her turn, she at once set out from her house, or the corner where she stood, and met him; she did not wait till he came up and made his suit to her, but she went out, and first attacked him; wherefore the word "behold" is prefixed as a note of admiration at the impudence of the woman, and as a note of attention to observe the consequence of this affair. This woman represents the woman on a scarlet-coloured beast, the mother of harlots, who, though she pretends to be the spouse of Christ, is an arrant whore,

Revelation 17:3;

[with] the attire of a harlot; not with her face veiled, as Tamar was,

Genesis 38:14; for though that might be the sign of a harlot in the daytime, yet not in the night, as this was; rather with showy gaudy garments, such as the Athenian whores wore, or short ones, as the Romans; the word signifies one fitted to her body, neat and well shaped, to recommend her: so the woman, the whore of Rome, is said to be arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls; signifying the outward pomp and splendour of the Romish religion, designed to captivate weak and unwary minds,

Genesis 38:14- :;

and subtle of heart; mistress of all artful and intriguing methods to seduce and ensnare g; or, "reserved of heart" h, cautious and wary what she said, told everything that was encouraging, but kept back what was discouraging; or she kept her own heart to herself, while she stole the hearts of others; so the Targum renders it,

"which takes away the hearts of young men;''

and to the same purpose are the versions of the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic: the subtlety of the popes, priests, jesuits, and other emissaries of Rome, to deceive the hearts of the simple, is well known; the coming of antichrist was after the working of Satan, with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, 2 Thessalonians 2:9.

g "Fallendique vias mille ministret amor", Tibullus ad Junonem, 6. v. 12. h נצרת לב "cauta corde", Tigurine version, Mercerus: Gejerus; "retento corde", Cocceius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:10. A woman with the attire of a harlot — It appears that sitting in some open place, and covering the face, or having a veil of a peculiar kind on, was the evidence of a harlot, Genesis 38:14; Genesis 38:15-19. No doubt, in Solomon's time, they had other distinctions. In all other countries, and in all times, the show of their countenance did testify against them; they declared their sin as Sodom; they hid it not. However, this does not seem to have been a mere prostitute; for she was, according to her own declaration, a married woman, and kept house, Proverbs 7:19, if her assertions relative to this were not falsehoods, and calculated the better to render him secure, and prevent the suspicion of endangering himself by cohabiting with a common woman; which I am rather inclined to think was the case, for she was subtle of heart.


 
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