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.

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

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!

Majority Standard Bible
So I came out to meet you; I sought 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 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.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Therefore I have come forth to meet you, "" To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.

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

Smith's Literal Translation
For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Because of this, I have gone out to meet you, desiring to see 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!

New Revised Standard Version
so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you!
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Therefore I came out to meet you, for I have been waiting to see you, and now I have found you.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Therefore I went out to meet you, for I've been waiting to see you and I found you.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, To seek thy face, and I have found thee.

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



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
Proverbs 5:3-6
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, / in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. / Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. ...

Proverbs 2:16-19
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. ...

Proverbs 6:24-26
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. / Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. / For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Proverbs 9:13-18
The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. / She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. ...

Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:27-28
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. / Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Judges 16:4-21
Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. / The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.” / So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” ...

Genesis 39:7-12
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” ...

1 Kings 11:1-4
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. / He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. ...

Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

James 1:14-15
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

2 Timothy 2:22
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


Treasury of Scripture

Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.

Jump to Previous
Care Diligently Eagerly Earnestly Face Find Forth Found Hope Meet Meeting Presence Seek
Jump to Next
Care Diligently Eagerly Earnestly Face Find Forth Found Hope Meet Meeting Presence Seek
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














So I came out to meet you
This phrase reflects the intentionality and premeditated nature of the seductress's actions. The Hebrew root for "came out" is "yatsa," which often implies a deliberate action or movement. In the context of ancient Israel, meeting someone outside the home was significant, as it was a public act that could imply a breach of social norms. The seductress's boldness in stepping out to meet the young man highlights the aggressive nature of temptation and sin, which often seeks us out rather than waiting passively.

I sought you
The Hebrew word for "sought" is "baqash," which conveys a sense of earnest searching or desire. This reflects the persistent and alluring nature of temptation, which actively seeks to ensnare individuals. In the broader scriptural context, seeking is often associated with pursuing God or wisdom (as seen in Proverbs 2:4), but here it is twisted to illustrate the pursuit of folly. The seductress's pursuit is a counterfeit of the righteous pursuit of God, reminding believers to be vigilant against such deceptive enticements.

and I have found you
The phrase "I have found you" uses the Hebrew root "matsa," which means to find or discover. This implies a sense of triumph or completion of a quest. In the historical context of Proverbs, finding someone could imply a sense of possession or control. The seductress's declaration of having found the young man suggests the culmination of her seductive strategy. It serves as a warning to believers about the dangers of being spiritually unguarded, as yielding to temptation can lead to being ensnared and controlled by sin. This phrase underscores the importance of seeking God's wisdom and protection to avoid being "found" by the wrong influences.

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


Links
Proverbs 7:15 NIV
Proverbs 7:15 NLT
Proverbs 7:15 ESV
Proverbs 7:15 NASB
Proverbs 7:15 KJV

Proverbs 7:15 BibleApps.com
Proverbs 7:15 Biblia Paralela
Proverbs 7:15 Chinese Bible
Proverbs 7:15 French Bible
Proverbs 7:15 Catholic Bible

OT Poetry: Proverbs 7:15 Therefore I came out to meet you (Prov. Pro Pr)
Proverbs 7:14
Top of Page
Top of Page