Proverbs 22:14
A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
13Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
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 now, as time after time, and shake myself free: he, not knowing, that, Yahweh, had departed from him.
Psalms 81:12So then I let them go on in the stubbornness of their own heart,[—] They might walk in their own counsels!
Proverbs 5:3For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;
Proverbs 7:5That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.
Ecclesiastes 7:26I, could indeed find, to be, more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is, snares and nets, and her hands, bonds,—whoso is pleasing before God, shall escape from her, but, he that sinneth, shall be 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 →