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Proverbs 7:11

(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

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:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She is loud and defiant;her feet do not stay at home.
Hebrew Names Version
She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
King James Version
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
English Standard Version
She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;
New Century Version
She was loud and stubborn and never stayed at home.
New English Translation
(She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home—
Amplified Bible
She was boisterous and rebellious; She would not stay at home.
New American Standard Bible
She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;
World English Bible
She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
Legacy Standard Bible
She is boisterous and rebellious,Her feet do not dwell at home;
Berean Standard Bible
She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
Contemporary English Version
She was one of those women who are loud and restless and never stay at home,
Complete Jewish Bible
She's the coarse, impulsive type, whose feet don't stay at home;
Darby Translation
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
Easy-to-Read Version
She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home.
George Lamsa Translation
She is rebellious and gluttonous; her feet do not abide in her house;
Good News Translation
She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets
Lexham English Bible
She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at her house.
Literal Translation
she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not rest in her own house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(a disceatfull, waton & an vnstedfast woma: whose fete coude not abyde in ye house,
American Standard Version
(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
Bible in Basic English
She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house;
King James Version (1611)
(She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She was full of loude wordes and redye to dallie, whose feete coulde not abide in the house:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
English Revised Version
She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and vnpacient of reste, and mai not stonde in the hous with hir feet;
Update Bible Version
She is clamorous and willful; Her feet do not abide in her house:
Webster's Bible Translation
(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
New King James Version
She was loud and rebellious, Her feet would not stay at home.
New Living Translation
She was the brash, rebellious type, never content to stay at home.
New Life Bible
She is loud and has a strong self-will. Her feet do not stay at home.
New Revised Standard
She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Boisterous, is she, and rebellious, In her house, abide not her feet;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
Revised Standard Version
She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;
Young's Literal Translation
Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;

Contextual Overview

6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe, 7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding, 8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house, 9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke. 10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart. 11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house. 12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner) 13 So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him, 14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes. 15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

loud: Proverbs 9:13, Proverbs 25:24, Proverbs 27:14, Proverbs 27:15, Proverbs 31:10-31

her feet: Genesis 18:9, 1 Timothy 5:13, 1 Timothy 5:14, Titus 2:5

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 3:2 - In the Ezekiel 16:30 - the work

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
Then God made the firmament, and separated the waters, which were vnder the firmament, from the waters which were aboue the firmament. and it was so.
Genesis 6:17
And I, beholde, I will bring a flood of waters vpon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life vnder the heauen: all that is in the earth shall perish.
Genesis 7:5
Noah therefore did according vnto all that the Lord commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
And Noah was sixe hundreth yeeres olde, when the flood of waters was vpon the earth.
Genesis 7:8
Of the cleane beastes, and of the vncleane beastes, and of the foules, and of all that creepeth vpon the earth,
Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,
Genesis 7:23
So he destroyed euery thing that was vpon the earth, from man to beast, to ye creeping thing, and to the foule of the heauen: they were euen destroyed from the earth. And Noah onely remained; & they that were with him in ye Arke.
Genesis 7:24
And the waters preuailed vpon the earth an hundreth and fiftie dayes.
2 Kings 7:2
Then a prince, on whose hande the King leaned, answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, could this thing come to passe? And he said, Beholde, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.
2 Kings 7:19
But the prince had answered the man of God, and saide, Though the Lorde would make windowes in the heauen, coulde it come so to passe? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eate thereof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She [is] loud and stubborn,.... "Loud"; not that her voice may be heard, and so be found by those that seek her in the dark, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but rather clamorous, noisy, and talkative, when she has got her gallant with her; pouring out foolish and unchaste words to allure and entice him; unless it is to be understood of her bawling and scolding, when within doors, at her husband, in order to get him out, and be rid of him; to whom she is "stubborn" or "rebellious", as the Targum, breaking covenant with him, and disobeying his commands; and departing from him, declining out of the way, as Jarchi; speaking rebellion, as Aben Ezra: all which agree with the whore of Rome, who is rebellious against Christ, whose spouse she professes to be; is perfidious to him, disobedient to his commandments; is gone out of the way of his truths and ordinances, and publishes and encourages everything that is contrary thereunto; as well as has a mouth speaking blasphemies, Revelation 13:5;

her feet abide not in her house; to attend the business of it; but site is gadding abroad to seek her lovers, and bring them in; it is the character of good women that they are keepers at home, but it is the sign of a harlot to gad abroad, which is enlarged upon in Proverbs 7:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:11. She is loud and stubborn — המיה homiyah, she is never at rest, always agitated; busily employed to gain her end, and this is to go into the path of error: סררת sorereth, "turning aside;" preferring any way to the right way. And, therefore, it is added, her feet abide not in her house; she gads abroad; and this disposition probably first led her to this vice.


 
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