American Standard Version
Proverbs 22:14
14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit;He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Proverbs 22:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
- New International Version (NIV)The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.
Context of Proverbs 22:14
12The eyes of Jehovah preservehim that hathknowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man. 13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein. 15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him. 16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his gain, Andhe that giveth to the rich, shall come only to want.
Read all of Proverbs 22Proverbs 22:14 word by word
שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲ֭מֻקָּה פִּ֣י זָר֑וֹת זְע֥וּם יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִפָּל שָֽׁם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 22:14
- Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.
- Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
- Proverbs 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
- Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he knew not that Jehovah was departed from him.
- Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Deuteronomy 32:19And Jehovah sawit, and abhorred them, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Psalms 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
Commentaries on Proverbs 22:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit - In Proverbs 23:27, he says, A whore is a Deep Ditch:, oud 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14The 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.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14Verse 14 The vile sin of licentiousness commonly besots the mind beyond recovery.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14An immoral woman uses flattery and seduction to lure a young man into committing a sin.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. The mouth--or flattering speeches (Pr 5:3; 7:5) ensnare man, as pits, beasts. God makes their own sin their punishment.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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