Proverbs 7:21 (BSB)

With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:21

• 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 7:21: He goeth after her straightway,.... Or "suddenly" (g); and inconsiderately, giving himself no time to think of what would be the sad consequences of it; as an ox goeth to the slaughter; as senseless and stupid as that; and as ignorant of the issue as that is, led by the butcher, as if it was going to a pasture, when it is going to the slaughter house.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:21: caused . . . yield--or, "inclines." flattering--(Compare Pro 5:3). forced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:21: Pro 7:21 The result: - 21 She beguiled him by the fulness of her talking, By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away. Here is a climax. First she brought him to yield, overcoming the resistance of his mind to the last point (cf. 1Ki 11:3); then drove him, or, as we say, hurried him wholly away, viz., from the right path or conduct (cf.