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Proverbs 23:28
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Surely she lies in wait as a robber,And adds to the treacherous among men.
Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men.
She lyeth in wayte as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours amongst men.
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.
Surely she lies in wait, as for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.
A bad woman waits for you like a thief, and she causes many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.
She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours among men.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
She lurketh like a thefe, and those that be not awarre she brigeth vnto her.
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
Yes, she lies in wait as a robber, And increases the traitors among man.
She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
they are waiting to attack you like a gang of robbers with victim after victim.
She lies in wait to snatch her prey and adds to the number of faithless men.
Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.
She destroys men suddenly, and increases iniquity among men.
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men.
She hides and waits like a robber, eager to make more men unfaithful.
She lies in wait as a robber, and makes many more men not faithful.
For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
She is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.
Certainly she lurks as a robber, And increases the treacherous among mankind.
They ambush you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful.
indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases those among men who are unfaithful.
Sche settith aspie in the weie, as a theef; and sche schal sle hem, whiche sche schal se vnwar.
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as for a prey: or, as a robber, Proverbs 2:16-19, Proverbs 7:12, Proverbs 7:22-27, Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 22:14, Judges 16:4-22, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Jeremiah 3:2
increaseth: Numbers 25:1, Hosea 4:11, 1 Corinthians 10:8, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:2
Reciprocal: Proverbs 5:4 - her Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 9:15 - General Acts 11:23 - purpose
Gill's Notes on the Bible
She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey,.... At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a prey of their virtue and of their money. Or, "as [a man of] prey" k; a thief and robber, so Gersom; thus she watches and takes all opportunities to seize on persons, and rob them of their substance, health, and credit; or rather "as [a beast of] prey"; ravenous, devouring, and insatiable; so the Targum,
"as a beast ravening, she lies in wait with her eyes;''
and increaseth the transgressors among men; there is none that occasions wore sin, or makes more sinners, than a whorish woman; swearing, lying, drunkenness, thieving, stealing, housebreaking, robbing on the highway, c. are the sins she leads into. Or, "increaseth treacherous" l persons to God, to their king, to their wives, to their master's; and all that they may consume, what they can get by perfidious practices, upon them, or,
"perfidious persons among men, she adds "to herself" m;''
she gets a parcel of abandoned wretches about her, whom she employs as her panders for her lust, or as bullies to spoil her gallants of their substance, or murder them for the sake of it.
k כחתף "tanquam vir praedae", Vatablus; "ut praedator", Mercerus, Gejerus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "ut raptor", Cocceius; "velut praedo", Michaelis; "ut harpago", Schultens. l בוגדים "perfidos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schultens. m תוסיף "adjungitque sibi", Tigurine version.
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 23:28. Increaseth the transgressors among men. — More iniquity springs from this one source of evil, than from any other cause in the whole system of sin. Women and strong drink cause many millions to transgress.
