Proverbs 7:13

THE MESSAGE

She threw her arms around him and kissed him, boldly took his arm and said, "I've got all the makings for a feast— today I made my offerings, my vows are all paid, So now I've come to find you, hoping to catch sight of your face—and here you are! I've spread fresh, clean sheets on my bed, colorful imported linens. My bed is aromatic with spices and exotic fragrances. Come, let's make love all night, spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking! My husband's not home; he's away on business, and he won't be back for a month."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She grabs him and kisses him;she brazenly says to him,

Hebrew Names Version
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

King James Version
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

English Standard Version
She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,

New Century Version
She grabbed him and kissed him. Without shame she said to him,

New English Translation
So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,

Amplified Bible
So she caught him and kissed him And with a brazen and impudent face she said to him:

New American Standard Bible
So she seizes him and kisses him, And with a brazen face she says to him:

World English Bible
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

Geneva Bible (1587)
So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

Legacy Standard Bible
So she seizes him and kisses himAnd with a brazen face she says to him:

Berean Standard Bible
She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Contemporary English Version
She grabbed him and kissed him, and with no sense of shame, she said:

Complete Jewish Bible
She grabs him, gives him a kiss, and, brazen-faced, she says to him,

Darby Translation
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Easy-to-Read Version
She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said,

George Lamsa Translation
So she caught him and kissed him, and, with an impudent face, said to him,

Good News Translation
She threw her arms around the young man, kissed him, looked him straight in the eye, and said,

Lexham English Bible
She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,

Literal Translation
and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
she caught ye yoge ma, kyssed him & was not ashamed, sayege:

American Standard Version
So she caught him, and kissed him, And with an impudent face she said unto him:

Bible in Basic English
So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:

King James Version (1611)
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
She caught hym and kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

English Revised Version
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And sche takith, and kissith the yong man; and flaterith with wowynge cheer, and seith, Y ouyte sacrifices for heelthe;

Update Bible Version
So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said to him:

Webster's Bible Translation
So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said to him,

New King James Version
So she caught him and kissed him; With an impudent face she said to him:

New Living Translation
She threw her arms around him and kissed him, and with a brazen look she said,

New Life Bible
So she catches him and kisses him. With a hard face she says to him,

New Revised Standard
She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So she caught him, and kissed him, and, embolding her face, she said to him:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:

Revised Standard Version
She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

Young's Literal Translation
And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him:

Contextual Overview

⁶As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters, Watching the mindless crowd stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense Arriving at the corner of the street where she lived, then turning up the path to her house. It was dusk, the evening coming on, the darkness thickening into night. Just then, a woman met him— she'd been lying in wait for him, dressed to seduce him. Brazen and brash she was, restless and roaming, never at home, Walking the streets, loitering in the mall, hanging out at every corner in town. ¹³She threw her arms around him and kissed him, boldly took his arm and said, "I've got all the makings for a feast— today I made my offerings, my vows are all paid, So now I've come to find you, hoping to catch sight of your face—and here you are! I've spread fresh, clean sheets on my bed, colorful imported linens. My bed is aromatic with spices and exotic fragrances. Come, let's make love all night, spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking! My husband's not home; he's away on business, and he won't be back for a month." ²¹Soon 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

she: Genesis 39:7, Genesis 39:12, Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:6-8, Numbers 31:16, Ezekiel 16:33, Revelation 2:20

with an impudent face said: Heb. she strengthened her face and said, Isaiah 50:7, Ezekiel 2:4, Ezekiel 2:6, Ezekiel 3:7-9

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:10 - as she spake Deuteronomy 28:50 - of fierce countenance Proverbs 6:35 - regard Proverbs 9:15 - General Proverbs 30:20 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
When Noah was 500 years old, he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18
"But I'm going to establish a covenant with you: You'll board the ship, and your sons, your wife and your sons' wives will come on board with you. You are also to take two of each living creature, a male and a female, on board the ship, to preserve their lives with you: two of every species of bird, mammal, and reptile—two of everything so as to preserve their lives along with yours. Also get all the food you'll need and store it up for you and them."

Genesis 7:1
Next God said to Noah, "Now board the ship, you and all your family—out of everyone in this generation, you're the righteous one.

Genesis 7:2
"Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female; and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth. In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.

Genesis 10:21
Shem, the older brother of Japheth, also had sons. Shem was ancestor to all the children of Eber.

Hebrews 11:7
By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So she caught him, and kissed him,.... The young man that went near her corner where she was plying, or in the way to her house, where she was sitting, or standing, waiting and watching for such an opportunity, for such a person, as a prey to fasten on; and no sooner she saw him, and come up to him, but, without any ceremony or address, she laid hold upon him, as the word l signifies, threw her arms about his neck, and embraced him in them; and, what is unusual for women to do, kissed him, in order to stir up wanton affections and impure desires in him;

[and] with an impudent face; or, "and she strengthened her face" m; rubbed her forehead, put on a brasen face, a whore's front; see Jeremiah 3:3. And

said unto him; accosted him in the following manner, without shame or blushing.

l החזיקה בו "apprehendit eum", Pagninus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens. m העזה פניה "et roboravit facies suas", Montanus; "vultumque suum obfirmavit", Schultens, so Michaelis; "obfirmabat", Cocceius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:13. So she caught him — Laid fast hold on him, and kissed him, to show that she was affectionately attached to him.

And with an impudent face — העזה פניה heezzah paneyha, "she strengthened her countenance," assumed the most confident look she could; endeavoured to appear friendly and sincere.