Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit, || The abhorred of YHWH falls there.
Literal Standard Version
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 slothful has said, “A lion [is] outside, || I am slain in the midst of the broad places.”
15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, || The rod of discipline puts it far from him.
Cross References
Judges 16:20and she says, “Philistines [are] on you, Samson!” And he awakens out of his sleep and says, “I go out as time by time, and shake free”; but he has not known that YHWH has turned aside from off him.
Psalms 81:12And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, || They walk in their own counsels.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, || And her mouth [is] smoother than oil,
Proverbs 7:5To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
Ecclesiastes 7:26And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart [is] nets and snares, her hands [are] bands; the good before God escapes from her, but the sinner is captured 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 →