Proverbs 22:14
A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath said, 'A lion [is] without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.
Cross References
Judges 16:20and she saith, 'Philistines [are] upon thee, Samson;' and he awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'I go out as time by time, and shake myself;' and he hath not known that Jehovah hath 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 smoother than oil [is] her mouth,
Proverbs 7:5To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
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 escapeth 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 →