Proverbs 22:14

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

WEB

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

ASV

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

LSV

The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit, || The abhorred of YHWH falls there.

YLT

A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

DBY

The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.

DRC

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

GNV

The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

JPS

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

LXXE

The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.

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WLC

שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲ֭מֻקָּה פִּ֣י זָר֑וֹת זְע֥וּם יְ֝הוָ֗ה יפול־שָֽׁם׃Read aloud as (qere): יִפָּל

LXX-Br

Βόθρος βαθὺς στόμα παρανόμου, ὁ δὲ μισηθεὶς ὑπὸ Κυρίου ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς αὐτόν. εἰσὶν ὁδοὶ κακαὶ ἐνώπιον ἀνδρὸς, καὶ οὐκ ἀγαπᾷ τοῦ ἀποστρέψαι ἀπʼ αὐτῶν, ἀποστρέφειν δὲ δεῖ ἀπὸ ὁδοῦ σκολιᾶς καὶ κακῆς.

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• Ecclesiastes 7:26And 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.
• Proverbs 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
• Proverbs 6:24–29to 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…
• Nehemiah 13:26Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
• Proverbs 7:5–27that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words. For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking…
• Proverbs 2:16–19It 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…
• Judges 16:20–21Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.…
• Deuteronomy 32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
• Proverbs 5:3–23Though 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.…
• Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

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