Proverbs 7:12 {13}
Good News Translation
or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.

New Revised Standard Version
now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.

Contemporary English Version
who walk street after street, waiting to trap a man.

New American Bible
Now she is in the streets, now in the open squares, lurking in ambush at every corner.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:

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And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:

Proverbs 9:14 To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:

Proverbs 23:28 She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.

Jeremiah 2:20,33,36 Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself. . . .

Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.

Ezekiel 16:24,25,31 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street. . . .

Revelation 18:3,23 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. . . .

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
11Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners. 12And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:13I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.…
Cross References
Proverbs 7:8
In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night.

Proverbs 9:14
To call them that pass by the way, and go on their journey:

Proverbs 23:28
She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.

Proverbs 7:11
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