Proverbs 7:11 Commentary and Bible Study

What does all this mean? Well, she knows she is dealing with a youngster so she adapts herself to that. She may be a youngster herself and she is boisterous and noisy. There is something attractive about youth – the noisiness of youth in the best sense, the banter and the animated conversation and the humour – and she adapts herself to that. It is not actually a condemnation of youthful effervescence and rapid conversation and interaction and enjoyment of each other's talk and company; that is part of youthfulness. But it is showing how she adapts herself to that to be attractive, to get across. She is loud and stubborn. Stubborn here could better be translated rebellious. It is from the Hebrew to rebel, to turn away. It simply means this that she is rebellious in her own marriage, in her own home. She is a married woman evidently, as the passage tells us further on, and she is disloyal and rebellious. She wants to intrigue; she wants to fascinate with her confidence and experience of life. She knows that an inexperienced youth will be susceptible to this. There she is in the streets and lying in wait at every corner. She is determined to catch somebody.