Proverbs 22:14 “The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

World English Bible

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.

American Standard Version

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

Geneva Bible 1599

The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

Darby Translation

The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.

Young's Literal Translation

A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

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.

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Cross references

“mouth”

Ecclesiastes 7:26 Proverbs 23:27 Proverbs 6:24–29 Nehemiah 13:26 Proverbs 7:5–27 Proverbs 2:16–19

Ecclesiastes 7:26 · BSB

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

Proverbs 23:27 · BSB

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Proverbs 6:24–29 · BSB

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Nehemiah 13:26 · BSB

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Proverbs 7:5–27 · BSB

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Proverbs 2:16–19 · BSB

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

“abhorred”

Deuteronomy 32:19 Psalm 81:12

Deuteronomy 32:19 · BSB

When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

Psalm 81:12 · BSB

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

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