Proverbs 23:27
25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
28 Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- 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.
- DARBY
- For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- BLB
- For a prostitute [is] a deep pit, and a strange woman [is] a narrow well.
- ÅB
- For skjøgen er en dyp grav, og den fremmede kvinne en trang brønn;
- OTB
- for en promiskuøs kvinne er en dyp grav, og en utro hustru er en trang brønn.
- B1930
- For skjøgen er en dyp grav, og den fremmede kvinne en trang brønn;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 22:14
The 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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