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THE MESSAGE

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a whore is a bottomless pit; you'll fall in that pit if you're on the outs with God .

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.
King James Version
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
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.
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 a whore is a bottomless pit; you'll fall in that pit if you're on the outs with God .

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 22:8
Abraham said, "Son, God will see to it that there's a sheep for the burnt offering." And they kept on walking together.
Genesis 22:13
Abraham looked up. He saw a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. Abraham took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 22:14
Abraham named that place God -Yireh ( God -Sees-to-It). That's where we get the saying, "On the mountain of God , he sees to it."
Genesis 32:30
Jacob named the place Peniel (God's Face) because, he said, "I saw God face-to-face and lived to tell the story!"
Exodus 17:15
Moses built an altar and named it " God My Banner." He said, Salute God 's rule! God at war with Amalek Always and forever!
Deuteronomy 32:36
Yes, God will judge his people, but oh how compassionately he'll do it. When he sees their weakened plight and there is no one left, slave or free, He'll say, "So where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge, The gods who feasted on the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? Let them show their stuff and help you, let them give you a hand!
Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to God and named it " God 's Peace." It's still called that at Ophrah of Abiezer.
Ezekiel 48:35
"The four sides of the city measure to a total of nearly six miles. "From now on the name of the city will be Yahweh-Shammah : "God-Is-There."
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.

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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