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King James Version

Proverbs 22:14

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Thompson Chain Reference - Evil;   Fall;   Insecurity of the Wicked;   Security-Insecurity;   Wicked, the;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Abhorrence;   Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pit;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deep;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.
Hebrew Names Version
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it.
English Standard Version
The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
New American Standard Bible
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; He who is cursed of the LORD will fall into it.
New Century Version
The words of an unfaithful wife are like a deep trap. Those who make the Lord angry will get caught by them.
Amplified Bible
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable]; He who is cursed by the LORD [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
World English Bible
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.
Legacy Standard Bible
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit;He who is cursed of Yahweh will fall into it.
Berean Standard Bible
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is cursed by the LORD will fall into it.
Contemporary English Version
The words of a bad woman are like a deep pit; if you make the Lord angry, you will fall right in.
Complete Jewish Bible
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; the man with whom Adonai is angry falls into it.
Darby Translation
The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sin of adultery is a trap, and the Lord gets very angry with those who fall into it.
George Lamsa Translation
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry shall fall into it.
Good News Translation
Adultery is a trap—it catches those with whom the Lord is angry.
Lexham English Bible
A deep pit is the mouth of an adulteress, he with whom Yahweh is angry will fall there.
Literal Translation
The mouth of alien women is a deep pit; those despised by Jehovah shall fall there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.
American Standard Version
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Bible in Basic English
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
King James Version (1611)
The mouth of strange women is a deepe pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
English Revised Version
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The mouth of an alien womman is a deep diche; he to whom the Lord is wrooth, schal falle in to it.
Update Bible Version
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Yahweh shall fall therein.
Webster's Bible Translation
The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein.
New English Translation
The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
New King James Version
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.
New Living Translation
The mouth of an immoral woman is a dangerous trap; those who make the Lord angry will fall into it.
New Life Bible
The mouth of a sinful woman is a deep hole. He with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
New Revised Standard
The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
Revised Standard Version
The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
Young's Literal Translation
A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
THE MESSAGE
The mouth of a whore is a bottomless pit; you'll fall in that pit if you're on the outs with God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; He who is cursed of the LORD will fall into it.

Contextual Overview

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

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mouth: Proverbs 2:16-19, Proverbs 5:3-23, Proverbs 6:24-29, Proverbs 7:5-27, Proverbs 23:27, Judges 16:20, Judges 16:21, Nehemiah 13:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26

a deep pit: That is, it is like a deep pit, or pitfall, in which animals are often taken alive.

abhorred: Deuteronomy 32:19, Psalms 81:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:8 - refused Genesis 39:10 - as she spake Judges 16:4 - he loved Judges 16:6 - General 1 Kings 11:1 - loved 1 Kings 21:25 - whom Jezebel Job 31:9 - If mine Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 23:28 - as for a prey

Cross-References

Genesis 22:4
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 28:19
And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit,.... The mouth of harlots; the kisses of their mouth, their fair speech and flattering words, their amorous talk, and lascivious and wanton language, ensnare and draw unwary persons to commit lewdness with them, which bring them into a pit of ruin and destruction; a filthy one, and very deep, out of which it is not easy nor usual to be extricated: the allusion is to beasts taken in a pit dug for them; and these are as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed;

he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein; who has been guilty of other sins, and such as have caused the Lord to abhor him, and therefore leaves him to fall into this: one sin not only leads on to another, but is the punishment of another; men are seldom guilty of this sin of whoredom, but who have been first abandoned to other vices very provoking to. God; see Ecclesiastes 7:26. Jarchi interprets all this of idolatry; and it may be very well applied to the whore of Rome, and the harlots she is mother of; who, by her fair words and false doctrines, by her mouth speaking blasphemies and lies in hypocrisy, by her golden cup in her hand full of abomination and filthiness of fornication, and by her sorceries, have deceived many, and brought them into the pit of perdition and ruin: and these are such whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life; but are rejected of God, and given up to believe a lie, that they might be damned, Revelation 17:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The fall of the man into the snare of the harlot seems to be the consequence of the abhorrence or wrath of Yahweh. That abhorrence is, however, the result of previous evil. The man is left to himself, and sin becomes the penalty of sin.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit — In Proverbs 23:27, he says, A whore is a DEEP DITCH:, and a strange woman is a NARROW PIT. The allusions in these three places are too plain to be misunderstood. Virgil's hell has been adduced in illustration: -

----------------Sate sanguine Divum,

Tros Anchisiade, facilis decensus Averni;

Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis:

Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras,

HOC OPUS, hic LABOR est. Pauci quos aequus amavit

Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus,

Dis geniti potuere.

VIRG. AEn. lib. vi., ver. 125.

"O glorious prince of brave Anchises' line!

Great godlike hero! sprung from seed divine,

Smooth lies the road to Pluto's gloomy shade;

And hell's black gates for ever stand display'd:

But 'tis a long unconquerable pain,

To climb to these ethereal realms again.

The choice-selected few, whom favouring Jove,

Or their own virtue, rais'd to heaven above,

From these dark realms emerged again to day;

The mighty sons of gods, and only they.

PITT.


 
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