Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
In Context
13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
15Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Cross References
Judges 16:20And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out as at other times before, and disengage myself. And he knew not that Jehovah had departed from him.
Psalms 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
Ecclesiastes 7:26and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:14
13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. Note, 1. Those that have no love for their business will never want excuses to shake it off. Multitudes are ruined, both for soul and body, by their slothfulness, and yet still they have something or other to say for themselves, so ingenious are men in putting a cheat upon their own souls. And who, I pray, will be the gainer at last, when the pretences will be all rejected as vain and frivolous? 2. Many frighten themselves from… Read the whole commentary →