Proverbs 7:15
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
BSB
ASV
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
KJV
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
With a provocative movement of a prostitute, with a disrupted gait through delights, with wandering eyes, and with playful darting of her eyelids, she captures the precious souls of young men (for the eye of a prostitute is a snare of a sinner), and with doubtful perception, she accosts anyone passing by in the corner of her house, with charming words, causing the hearts of young men to flutter, restless at home, wandering in the streets, prodigal with kisses, cheap in modesty, rich in attire, painted cheeks.
(2.) Her profession of piety. She had been to-day at the temple, and was as well respected there as any that worshipped in the courts of the Lord. She had paid her vows, and, as she thought, made all even with God Almighty, and therefore might venture upon a new score of sins.
The offerer retained part of the victim for a feast (Le 3:9, &c.). This feast she professes was prepared for him whom she boldly addresses as one sought specially to partake of it. 16, 17. my bed--or, "couch," adorned in the costliest manner.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.