Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

King James Version

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Holman Bible

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

International Standard Version

The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; a man experiencing the LORD's wrath will fall into it.

A Conservative Version

The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.

American Standard Version

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

Amplified


The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.

Bible in Basic English

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

Darby Translation

The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.

Julia Smith Translation

The mouth of the strange woman a deep pit: and he cursing Jehovah shall fall there.

King James 2000

The mouth of immoral women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.

Modern King James verseion

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; those despised by Jehovah shall fall there.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.

NET Bible

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

New Heart English Bible

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under the LORD's wrath will fall into it.

The Emphasized Bible

A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.

Webster

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein.

World English Bible

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

Youngs Literal Translation

A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The mouth
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

is a deep
עמק 
`amoq 
Usage: 17

pit
שׁוּחה 
Shuwchah 
Usage: 5

he that is abhorred
זעם 
Za`am 
Usage: 12

of the Lord

Usage: 0

References

American

Pit

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside;
I will be killed in the streets!”
14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.
15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him.



Cross References

Proverbs 23:27

For a harlot is a deep pit
And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Proverbs 6:24-29

To keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Deuteronomy 32:19

The Lord saw this, and spurned them
Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

Judges 16:20-21

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.

Psalm 81:12

“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.

Proverbs 2:16-19

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Proverbs 5:3-23

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

Proverbs 7:5-27

That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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