Proverbs 22:14 · KJV
“The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.”
— Proverbs 22:14
The slothful {man} saith, {There is} a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Foolishness {is} bound in the heart of a child; {but} the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 22 — Context
The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. {the words: or, the matters}
13The slothful {man} saith, {There is} a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
14The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
15Foolishness {is} bound in the heart of a child; {but} the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his {riches, and} he that giveth to the rich, {shall} surely {come} to want.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart {is} snares and nets, {and} her hands {as} bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. {whoso...: Heb. he that is good before God}
Proverbs 23:27
For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.
Proverbs 6:24-29
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. {of the...: or, of the strange tongue}
Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Proverbs 7:5-27
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words.
Judges 16:20-21
And she said, The Philistines {be} upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;
Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}