Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 slain in the streets.'
Cross References
Judges 16:20And she said: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he awoke out of his sleep, and said: 'I will go out as at other times, and shake myself.' But he knew not that the LORD was departed from him.
Psalms 81:12(81-13) So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.
Ecclesiastes 7:26and 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.
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 →