Proverbs 23:28

26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

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, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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  • Proverbs 7:12

    Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:8

    Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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  • Hosea 4:11

    Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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  • Proverbs 22:14

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

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  • Revelation 17:1–2

    And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

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  • Jeremiah 3:2

    Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

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  • Proverbs 2:16–19

    To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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