Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, May 31st, 2025
the Sixth Week after Easter
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Easy-to-Read Version

Proverbs 7:21

This is what the woman said to tempt the young man, and her smooth words tricked him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Flattery;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hypocrisy;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Flattery;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Men;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   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;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Compel;   Fair;   Lip;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She seduces him with her persistent pleading;she lures with her flattering talk.
Hebrew Names Version
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
English Standard Version
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
New Century Version
By her clever words she made him give in; by her pleasing words she led him into doing wrong.
New English Translation
She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.
Amplified Bible
With her many persuasions she caused him to yield; With her flattering lips she seduced him.
New American Standard Bible
With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.
World English Bible
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
Legacy Standard Bible
With her abundant persuasions she entices him;With her flattering lips she drives him to herself.
Berean Standard Bible
With her great persuasion she entices him; she lures him with her flattering lips.
Contemporary English Version
And so, she tricked him with all of her sweet talk and her flattery.
Complete Jewish Bible
With all her sweet talk she convinces him, enticing him with her seductive words.
Darby Translation
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
George Lamsa Translation
With much fair speech she misled him, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Good News Translation
So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk.
Lexham English Bible
She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.
Literal Translation
With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him.
American Standard Version
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
Bible in Basic English
With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.
King James Version (1611)
With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path.
English Revised Version
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sche boonde hym with many wordis; and sche drow forth hym with flateryngis of lippis.
Update Bible Version
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.
Webster's Bible Translation
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.
New King James Version
With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, With her flattering lips she seduced him.
New Living Translation
So she seduced him with her pretty speech and enticed him with her flattery.
New Life Bible
She leads him away with her tempting talk. She tempts him with the smooth words of her lips.
New Revised Standard
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness, - with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him:
Douay-Rheims Bible
She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
Revised Standard Version
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
Young's Literal Translation
She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
THE MESSAGE
Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech. Before you know it, he's trotting behind her, like a calf led to the butcher shop, Like a stag lured into ambush and then shot with an arrow, Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its flying life is over.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.

Contextual Overview

6 One day I was looking out my window 7 at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all. 8 He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house. 9 The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark. 10 Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him. 11 She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home. 12 She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap. 13 She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said, 14 "I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give, 15 and I still have plenty of food left. So I came out to find you, and here you are!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

With her: Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 5:3, Judges 16:15-17, Psalms 12:2

forced: 1 Samuel 28:23, 2 Kings 4:8, Luke 14:23, Luke 24:29, Acts 16:15, 2 Corinthians 5:14

Reciprocal: Judges 14:17 - she lay Judges 16:5 - Entice Judges 16:6 - General Judges 16:16 - she pressed Judges 16:19 - she made 2 Chronicles 24:17 - the princes of Judah Nehemiah 6:4 - four times Job 31:9 - If mine Proverbs 1:10 - General Proverbs 2:16 - flattereth Proverbs 26:28 - a flattering Proverbs 29:5 - that Ecclesiastes 7:26 - I find Ezekiel 16:30 - the work 1 Corinthians 2:4 - not James 3:6 - a world

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
So God said to Noah, "Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth.
Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.
Genesis 7:3
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made."
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
Genesis 7:7
He and his family went into the boat to be saved from the flood. His wife and his sons and their wives were on the boat with him.
Genesis 7:15
All these animals went into the boat with Noah. They came in groups of two from every kind of animal that had the breath of life.
Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for 40 days. The water began rising and lifted the boat off the ground.
Genesis 7:20
The water continued to rise above the mountains. The water was more than 20 feet above the highest mountain.
Isaiah 24:6
The people living in this land are guilty of doing wrong, so God promised to destroy the land. The people will be punished, and only a few of them will survive.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,.... Or, "to decline" from the right way: or, "inclined him" d; his ear to listen to her, and his heart to go after her and along with her. This she did, by using a great many words, by her prolixity, and by some taking and striking expressions; lewd women are generally very talkative e. It may be rendered, "by her much doctrine" f, as the word is in Proverbs 4:2; so Jezebel calls herself a prophetess, and sets up for a teacher of men; and, by her false doctrine, deceives some that are called the servants of Christ to commit fornication, and eat things sacrificed to idols, Revelation 2:20;

with the flattering of her lips she forced him; to go along with her, not against his will, but with it: though at first there was some reluctance, conscience rose up and opposed; but her words, which were smoother than oil, found a way into his heart, and prevailed upon him to yield to her entreaties; he could no longer withstand her attacks, but surrendered to her; her charming voice, and flattering lips, had more effect upon him than her kisses; notwithstanding these he was reluctant, but could stand it out no longer against her alluring words and soothing language. With this compare the deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish through antichrist, 2 Thessalonians 2:10.

d הטתו "declinare facit eum", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Gejerus; "flexit", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Michaelin "inclinavit illum", Cocceius. e "Verbosa gaudet Venus Ioquela", Catullus ad Camer. Ep. 53. v. 20. f ברב לקחה "multitudine discipline suae", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "doctrinae suae", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fair speech - The Hebrew word is usually translated “doctrine,” or “learning” Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 4:2; Proverbs 9:9; possibly it is used here in keen irony.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:21. With her much fair speech — With her blandishments and lascivious talk, she overcame all his scruples, and constrained him to yield.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile