Proverbs 7:12 (BSB)

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:12

• 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 7:12: 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...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:10-12: Pro 7:10-12 Finally, the young man devoid of understanding sees his waiting rewarded: like meets like. 10 And, lo, a woman coming to meet him, In the attire of an harlot and of subtle heart. 11 Boisterous is she, and ungovernable; Her feet have no rest in her own house.