Proverbs 7:10 {11}
Good News Translation
And then she met him; she was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans.

New Revised Standard Version
Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.

Contemporary English Version
She was dressed fancy like a woman of the street with only one thing in mind.

New American Bible
Then the woman comes to meet him, dressed like a harlot, with secret designs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,

the attire

Genesis 38:14,15 And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him. . . .

2 Kings 9:22,30 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel, thy mother, and her many sorceries, are in their vigour. . . .

Isaiah 3:16-24 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace: . . .

Isaiah 23:16 Take a harp, go about the city, harlot that hast been forgotten: sing well, sing many a song, that thou mayst be remembered.

Jeremiah 4:30 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.

1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

Revelation 17:3-5 And he took me away in spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. . . .

subtil

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

2 Corinthians 11:2,3 For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. . . .

Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
9And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering, 10Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,11Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.…
Cross References
1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?

Genesis 38:14
And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.

Genesis 38:15
When Juda saw her, he thought she was a harlot: for she had covered her face, lest she should be known.

Proverbs 7:9
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