Proverbs - 7:11



11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 7:11.

Differing Translations

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(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:
Noisy she is, and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.
She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
She is riotous and rebellious, Her feet abide not in her house;
unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Loud and stubborn - Both words describe the half-animal signs of a vicious nature. Compare Hosea 4:16.

She is loud and stubborn - המיה homiyah, she is never at rest, always agitated; busily employed to gain her end, and this is to go into the path of error: סררת sorereth, "turning aside;" preferring any way to the right way. And, therefore, it is added, her feet abide not in her house, she gads abroad; and this disposition probably first led her to this vice.

(She (d) [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
(d) He describes certain conditions, which are peculiar to harlots.

She is loud and stubborn,.... "Loud"; not that her voice may be heard, and so be found by those that seek her in the dark, as Aben Ezra interprets it; but rather clamorous, noisy, and talkative, when she has got her gallant with her; pouring out foolish and unchaste words to allure and entice him; unless it is to be understood of her bawling and scolding, when within doors, at her husband, in order to get him out, and be rid of him; to whom she is "stubborn" or "rebellious", as the Targum, breaking covenant with him, and disobeying his commands; and departing from him, declining out of the way, as Jarchi; speaking rebellion, as Aben Ezra: all which agree with the whore of Rome, who is rebellious against Christ, whose spouse she professes to be; is perfidious to him, disobedient to his commandments; is gone out of the way of his truths and ordinances, and publishes and encourages everything that is contrary thereunto; as well as has a mouth speaking blasphemies, Revelation 13:5;
her feet abide not in her house; to attend the business of it; but site is gadding abroad to seek her lovers, and bring them in; it is the character of good women that they are keepers at home, but it is the sign of a harlot to gad abroad, which is enlarged upon in Proverbs 7:11.

loud--or, "noisy," "bustling."
stubborn--not submissive.
without . . . streets, . . . corner--(Compare 1-Timothy 5:13; Titus 2:5).

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