Saying 18
Proverbs 23:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.Or a foreign woman or a wayward wife
- KJV
- For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- WEB
- For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
- ASV
- For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
- LSV
- For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, || And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
- YLT
- For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.
- DBY
- For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- DRC
- For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- GNV
- For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
- JPS
- For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.
- LXXE
- For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּֽי־שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲמֻקָּ֣ה זוֹנָ֑ה וּבְאֵ֥ר צָ֝רָ֗ה נָכְרִיָּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- Πίθος γὰρ τετρημένος ἐστὶν ἀλλότριος οἶκος, καὶ φρέαρ στενὸν ἀλλότριον.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
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