Proverbes 7:8

La Bible Ostervald

Qui passait par la rue, au coin où se tenait une de ces femmes, et qui suivait le chemin de sa maison,

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Qui passait par une rue, près du coin d'une certaine femme, et qui tenait le chemin de sa maison;

Darby's French Translation
qui passait par la rue, près du coin où demeurait cette femme, et il prit le chemin de sa maison,

Louis Segond (1910)
Il passait dans la rue, près de l'angle où se tenait une de ces étrangères, Et il se dirigeait lentement du côté de sa demeure:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 4:14, Proverbs 4:15, Proverbs 5:8, Judges 16:1, 2 Samuel 11:2, 2 Samuel 11:3, 1 Corinthians 6:18, 2 Timothy 2:22, Jude 1:23

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Passing through the street near her corner,.... The house of the harlot that stood in a corner to take in persons that came both ways; to come near which is dangerous; this was putting himself in the way of temptation; or the corner of the street where she stood to pick up young men; it could be with no good design to walk the streets in the night, and to go where harlots haunt, and where they dwell or stand; or, however, it was exposing himself to danger, and, had he took the wise man's advice, would not have done it, Proverbs 5:8; we should abstain from all appearance of evil, and from everything that leads to sin; and as to immorality and uncleanness, so to false doctrine and false worship; the synagogues of Satan and Popish chapels should be avoided;

and he went the way to her house; that led directly to her house, which shows a bad intention; and if his design was not to commit fornication, yet to gratify his lusts by looks, dalliances, and impure discourse with her; and hither he went in a set, stately manner, as the word f signifies; with an air pleasing to the harlot, as a beau and fop of the town; and by which air and gait he was known by her to be a proper person to attack.

f יצעד "intelligitur incessus, compositus et pomposus", Piscator; "magnis et patheticis possibus", Michaelis; "est aliquid grande et audax in verbo", Schultens.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:8. He went the way to her house. — She appears to have had a corner house sufficiently remarkable; and a way from the main street to it.