Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well. New Living Translation A prostitute is a dangerous trap; a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well. English Standard Version For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. Berean Standard Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. King James Bible For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. New King James Version For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well. New American Standard Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well. NASB 1995 For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well. NASB 1977 For a harlot is a deep pit, And an adulterous woman is a narrow well. Legacy Standard Bible For a harlot is a deep pit And a foreign woman is a narrow well. Amplified Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit, And an immoral woman is a narrow well. Christian Standard Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a wayward woman is a narrow well; Holman Christian Standard Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a stranger is a narrow well; American Standard Version For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For a whore is a deep ditch and an estranged woman is a disturbed well. Brenton Septuagint Translation For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow. Contemporary English Version Bad women and unfaithful wives are like a deep pit-- Douay-Rheims Bible For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. English Revised Version For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. GOD'S WORD® Translation A prostitute is a deep pit. A loose woman is a narrow well. Good News Translation Prostitutes and immoral women are a deadly trap. International Standard Version because a prostitute is a deep pit, and the adulterous woman a narrow well. JPS Tanakh 1917 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And an alien woman is a narrow pit. Literal Standard Version For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, | And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. Majority Standard Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. New American Bible For the harlot is a deep pit, and the foreign woman a narrow well; NET Bible for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well. New Revised Standard Version For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. New Heart English Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. Webster's Bible Translation For a lewd woman is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. World English Bible For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. Young's Literal Translation For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context True Riches…26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways. 27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. 28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.… Cross References Proverbs 2:16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words Proverbs 5:20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger? Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it. Treasury of Scripture For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. Jump to Previous Adulterous Adventuress Alien Deep Ditch Foreign Harlot Hollow Lewd Narrow Pit Prostitute Strait Strange Water-Hole Wayward Whore WifeJump to Next Adulterous Adventuress Alien Deep Ditch Foreign Harlot Hollow Lewd Narrow Pit Prostitute Strait Strange Water-Hole Wayward Whore WifeProverbs 23 1. Consider carefully what is before you(27) Strange woman (nokhriyyah).--See above, on Proverbs 2:16.Verse 27. - The need of the emphatic injunction in ver. 26 is exemplified by the dangers of impurity. A deep ditch; as Proverbs 22:14. A strange woman is a narrow pit. (For "strange woman," equivalent to "harlot," see on Proverbs 2:16.) A narrow pit is one with a narrow month, from which, if one falls into it, it is difficult to extricate one's self. The verse indicates the seductive nature of the vice of unchastity: how easy it is to be led into it! how difficult to rise from it! Thus St. Chrysostom ('Hom. 11, in 1 Corinthians'), "When by unclean desire the soul is made captive, even as a cloud and mist darken the eyes of the body, so that desire intercepts the foresight of the mind, and suffers no one to see any distance before him, either precipice, or hell, or fear; but thenceforth, having that deceit as a tyrant over him, he comes to be easily vanquished by sin; and there is raised up before his eyes as it were a partition wall, and no windows in it, which suffers not the ray of righteousness to shine in upon the mind, the absurd conceits of lust enclosing it as with a rampart on all sides. And then, and from that time forward, the unchaste woman is everywhere meeting him - before his eyes, before his mind, before his thoughts, in station and presence. And as the blind, although they stand at high noon beneath the very central point of the heaven, receive not the light, their eyes being fast closed up; just so these also, though ten thousand doctrines of salvation sound in their ears from all quarters, having their soul preoccupied with this passion, stop their ears against all discourses of that kind. And they know it well who have made the trial. But God forbid that you should know it from actual experience!" The LXX. has changed the allusion: "For a strange house is a pierced wine jar (πίθος τετρημένος), and a strange well is narrow," where the idea seems to be that the private well, which is dug for the convenience of one family only, is not to be relied upon, and will yield not enough to supply others' wants. Hence would arise a warning against coveting a neighbour's wife. There is a Greek proverb about drawing wine into pierced jars (Xen., 'OEcon.,' 7:40). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction a prostitute זוֹנָ֑ה (zō·w·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry is a deep עֲמֻקָּ֣ה (‘ă·muq·qāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 6013: Deep pit, שׁוּחָ֣ה (šū·ḥāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7745: A chasm and an adulteress נָכְרִיָּֽה׃ (nā·ḵə·rî·yāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 5237: Foreign, alien is a narrow צָ֝רָ֗ה (ṣā·rāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent well. וּבְאֵ֥ר (ū·ḇə·’êr) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 875: A pit, a well Links Proverbs 23:27 NIVProverbs 23:27 NLT Proverbs 23:27 ESV Proverbs 23:27 NASB Proverbs 23:27 KJV Proverbs 23:27 BibleApps.com Proverbs 23:27 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 23:27 Chinese Bible Proverbs 23:27 French Bible Proverbs 23:27 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 23:27 For a prostitute is a deep pit (Prov. Pro Pr) |
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