Proverbs 22:14
a Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
Brenton Septuagint
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 makes excuses, and says, There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
15Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.
Cross References
Judges 16:20And Dalida said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
Proverbs 5:3for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate:
Proverbs 7:5that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find her to be, and I will pronounce to be more bitter than death the woman which is a snare, and her heart nets, who has a band in her hands: he that is good in the sight of God shall be delivered 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 →