Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall.
Bible (Bishops')
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 slouthfull body saith there is a Lion without: I might be slaine in the streate.
15Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.
Cross References
Judges 16:20And she sayde, The Philistines be vp in thee Samson. And he awoke out of his sleepe, and sayde: I will go out now as at other tymes before, & shake my selfe. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from hym.
Proverbs 5:3For the lippes of a straunge woman are a dropping hony combe, and her throte is more glistering then oyle:
Proverbs 7:5That they may kepe thee from the straunge woman, and from the forraine woman which geueth sweete wordes.
Ecclesiastes 7:26And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with 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 →