Proverbs 7:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Proverbs 7:8 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 4:14-15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. …
Jude 1:23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Judges 16:1
Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-23)

Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. her corner--where she was usually found. went ... house--implying, perhaps, confidence in himself by his manner, as denoted in the word went--literally, “tread pompously.”