Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Passing through the street near her corner - in violation of the precept, "Pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away" (Proverbs 4:15; Proverbs 5:8). "Her corner" was in a place where two streets met, and therefore was laid out to catch youths passing by from two or more directions.
And he went the way to her house. "Went" - literally, moved leisurely and with studied gait, with stately air and bearing х yitsª`aad (H6805), Judges 5:4, "marchedst;" Psalms 67:7], such as is that of youths who wish to please women. Circumstances which give an occasion to sin are to be noticed and avoided. They who love danger fall into it. The youth (as Proverbs 7:21 shows) did not go with the intention of defiling himself with her, but to flatter his own vanity by seeing and talking with her, and hearing her flatteries. It is madness to play with Satan's edged tools.