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Proverbs 23:27
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A prostitute is a dangerous trap; a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.
For a prostitute is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
A prostitute is as dangerous as a deep pit, and an unfaithful wife is like a narrow well.
for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
For a lewd woman [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well.
For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
For an hoore is a deep diche, and an alien womman is a streit pit.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Bad women and unfaithful wives are like a deep pit—
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
A prostitute is a deep ditch, and a forbidden woman like a narrow well.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Prostitutes and bad women are a trap. They are like a deep well that you cannot escape.
For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.
For an whore is a deepe ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For a woman who sells the use of her body is like a deep hole. A sinful woman is a narrow well.
For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.
For a harlot is a deep pit; and a strange woman is a narrow well.
Prostitutes and immoral women are a deadly trap.
For, a deep chasm, is the unchaste woman, and, a narrow pit, the female unknown;
For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.
For an whore is a deepe graue, and a straunge woman is a narowe pit.
For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
For a prostitute is a deep pit,and a wayward woman is a narrow well;
For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is an adulteress.
For a harlot is a deep pit, and a strange woman is a narrow well.
For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.
For an whore is a depe graue, and an harlot is a narow pytt.
A whore is a bottomless pit; a loose woman can get you in deep trouble fast. She'll take you for all you've got; she's worse than a pack of thieves.
For a prostitute is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well.
For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well.
For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.
For a harlot is a deep pitAnd a foreign woman is a narrow well.
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Proverbs 22:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:10 - as she spake Numbers 31:16 - these caused Judges 16:4 - he loved Proverbs 2:16 - deliver Proverbs 5:4 - her Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 9:15 - General Proverbs 20:16 - a strange Ecclesiastes 7:26 - I find Hosea 4:11 - take
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For a whore [is] a deep ditch,.... Or, "as a deep ditch", so Aben Ezra; to which she may be compared for the filthiness of her whoredoms, and for her insatiable lust, as well as for her being never satisfied with what she receives from her lovers. Plautus compares g her to the sea, which devours whatever you give, and yet nothing appears; and another h calls a whore Charybdis, from her swallowing up and devouring all a man has. She is as a ditch that has no bottom, into which those that fall are ever sinking deeper and deeper, till they get into the bottomless pit; for there is seldom any recovery from this dreadful evil;
and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit; or "well" i; into which when men fall, they bruise themselves in a terrible manner, by beating from side to side; and out of which they cannot extricate themselves; at least not easily, but with great difficulty, if ever. This may very well be applied to the whore of Rome, and the filthiness of her fornications; and the dreadful state of those who are drawn in to commit fornication with her.
g Truculaetus, Act. 2. Sc. 7. v. 16, 17. "Lucuculetum coenum", Bacchides, Act. 3. Sc. 1. v. 11. "Lutea meretrix", Trucul. Act. 4. Sc. 4. v. 1l. h Sydonius Apollinar. l. 9. Ep. 6. i באר "putens", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.
Proverbs 23:16
The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter it.
Reins - See Job 19:27 note.
Proverbs 23:17
Envy sinners - Compare in Psalms 37:1; Psalms 73:3; the feeling which looks half-longingly at the prosperity of evil doers. Some connect the verb “envy” with the second clause, “envy not sinners, but envy, emulate, the fear of the Lord.”
Proverbs 23:18
Or, For if there is an end (hereafter), thine expectations shall not be cut off. There is an implied confidence in immortality.
Proverbs 23:20
Riotous eaters of flesh - The word is the same as “glutton” in Proverbs 23:21 and Deuteronomy 21:20.
Proverbs 23:21
The three forms of evil that destroy reputation and tempt to waste are brought together.
Drowsiness - Specially the drunken sleep, heavy and confused.
Proverbs 23:26
Observe - Another reading gives, “let thine eyes delight in my ways.”
Proverbs 23:28
As for a prey - Better as in the margin.
The transgressors - Better, the treacherous,” those that attack men treacherously.
Proverbs 23:29
Woe ... sorrow - The words in the original are interjections, probably expressing distress. The sharp touch of the satirist reproduces the actual inarticulate utterances of drunkenness.
Proverbs 23:30
Mixed wine - Wine flavored with aromatic spices, that increase its stimulating properties Isaiah 5:22. There is a touch of sarcasm in “go to seek.” The word, elsewhere used of diligent search after knowledge Proverbs 25:2; Job 11:7; Psalms 139:1, is used here of the investigations of connoisseurs in wine meeting to test its qualities.
Proverbs 23:31
His color - literally, “its eye,” the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles on which the wine drinker looks with complacency.
It moveth itself aright - The Hebrew word describes the pellucid stream flowing pleasantly from the wineskin or jug into the goblet or the throat (compare Song of Solomon 7:9), rather than a sparkling wine.
Proverbs 23:32
Adder - Said to be the Cerastes, or horned snake.
Proverbs 23:34
The passage is interesting, as showing the increased familiarity of Israelites with the experiences of sea life (compare Psalms 104:25-26; Psalms 107:23-30).
In the midst of the sea - i. e., When the ship is in the trough of the sea and the man is on the deck. The second clause varies the form of danger, the man is in the “cradle” at the top of the mast, and sleeps there, regardless of the danger.
Proverbs 23:35
The picture ends with the words of the drunkard on waking from his sleep. Unconscious of the excesses of the night, his first thought is to return to his old habit.
When shall I awake ... - Better, when I shall awake I will seek it yet again.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 23:27. For a whore is a deep ditch — See on Proverbs 22:14.
