Proverbs 23:28 · KJV
“She also lieth in wait as {for} a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {as for...: or, as a robber}”
— Proverbs 23:28
For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Proverbs 23 — Context
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.
28She also lieth in wait as {for} a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {as for...: or, as a robber}
29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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}
Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Proverbs 7:12
Now {is she} without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Revelation 17:1-2
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs 7:22-27
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}
Proverbs 2:16-19
To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;