Proverbs 23:28

26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

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?

30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
KJV
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
WEB
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
ASV
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
DARBY
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
BLB
She also, like a robber, lies in wait, and she increases the treacherous ones among men.
ÅB
ja, hun ligger på lur som en røver, og hun øker tallet på de troløse blant menneskene.
OTB
Hun lurer som en banditt og øker de utro blant menn.
B1930
ja, hun ligger på lur som en røver, og hun øker tallet på de troløse blandt menneskene.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26

    And 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.

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  • Proverbs 7:12

    Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:8

    We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

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  • Hosea 4:11

    Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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  • 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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  • Revelation 17:1–2

    Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

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  • Jeremiah 3:2

    “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

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  • Proverbs 2:16–19

    It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

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