Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.
World Messianic Bible
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 says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Cross References
Judges 16:20She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had departed from him.
Psalms 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Ecclesiastes 7:26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared 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 →