Proverbs 7:15
New International Version
So I came out to meet you; I looked for you and have found you!

New Living Translation
You’re the one I was looking for! I came out to find you, and here you are!

English Standard Version
so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.

Berean Standard Bible
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

King James Bible
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

New King James Version
So I came out to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, And I have found you.

New American Standard Bible
“Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence diligently, and I have found you.

NASB 1995
“Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

NASB 1977
“Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your face earnestly, and I have found you.

Amplified Bible
“So I came out to meet you [that you might share with me the feast of my offering], Diligently I sought your face and I have found you.

Christian Standard Bible
So I came out to meet you, to search for you, and I’ve found you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So I came out to meet you, to search for you, and I’ve found you.

American Standard Version
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Therefore I went out to meet you, for I've been waiting to see you and I found you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; and I have found thee.

Contemporary English Version
So I came looking for you, and here you are!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.

English Revised Version
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That's why I came to meet you. Eagerly, I looked for you, and I've found you.

Good News Translation
So I came out looking for you. I wanted to find you, and here you are!

International Standard Version
Therefore, I've come out to meet you, I've looked just for you, and I found you!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, To seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Literal Standard Version
Therefore I have come forth to meet you, | To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.

Majority Standard Bible
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.

New American Bible
So I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you!

NET Bible
That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!

New Revised Standard Version
so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you!

New Heart English Bible
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

World English Bible
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
14“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows. 15So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you. 16I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.…

Cross References
Genesis 39:7
and after some time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."

Proverbs 7:14
"I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 7:16
I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.


Treasury of Scripture

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Proverbs 7
1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6. In an example of his own experience he shows
10. the cunning of a harlot
22. and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24. He detests such wickedness














Verse 15. - Therefore came I forth to meet thee. As though she would invite the youth to a pious rite, she speaks; she uses religion as a pretext for her proceedings, trying to blind his conscience and to gratify his vanity. Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee (see on Proverbs 1:28). She tries to persuade her dupe that he is the very lover for whom she was looking, whereas she was ready to take the first that offered. Spiritual writers see in this adulteress a type of the mystery of iniquity, or false doctrine, or the harlot described in Revelation (Revelation 2:20, etc.; Revelation 17:1, etc.; Revelation 18:9, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

I came out
יָצָ֣אתִי (yā·ṣā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

to meet you;
לִקְרָאתֶ֑ךָ (liq·rā·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7125: Against he come, help, meet, seek, to, in the way

I sought you,
לְשַׁחֵ֥ר (lə·ša·ḥêr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7836: To dawn, be, early at any task, to search for

and I have found you.
וָאֶמְצָאֶֽךָּ׃ (wā·’em·ṣā·’e·kā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present


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