With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing...
Commenting on Proverbs 7:6-23
He goeth after her straightway,.... Or "suddenly" (g); and inconsiderately, giving himself no time to think of what would be the sad consequences of it; as an ox goeth to the slaughter; as senseless and stupid as that; and as ignorant of the issue as that is, led by the butcher, as if it was going to a pasture, when it is going to the slaughter house.
caused . . . yield--or, "inclines." flattering--(Compare Pro 5:3). forced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples.