Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete.
Cross References
Judges 16:20Then she said, The Philistims be vpon thee, Samson. And hee awoke out of his sleepe, and thought, I will go out now as at other times, and shake my selfe, but he knewe not that the Lord was departed from him.
Psalms 81:12So I gaue them vp vnto the hardnesse of their heart, and they haue walked in their owne cousels.
Proverbs 5:3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
Proverbs 7:5That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
Ecclesiastes 7:26It is farre off, what may it be? and it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?
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 →