Proverbs 7:11 (BSB)
She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 7:11
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-23: 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...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:11: Now is she without,.... The word for whore is sometimes rendered in the Targum (i) one that goes abroad, or without her house; sitting or standing at the door of it, in an idle posture, and in order to invite her lovers in; and if she can get none this way, or quickly, grows impatient: she is now in the streets; takes her walks abroad...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:11: loud--or, "noisy," "bustling." stubborn--not submissive. without . . . streets, . . . corner--(Compare Ti1 5:13; Tit 2:5).
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 7:11: (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: (d) He describes certain conditions, which are peculiar to harlots.