Proverbs 23:28

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Summary

Proverbs 23:28

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

As for a prey

Jeremiah 3:2

Increaseth

General references

Proverbs 7:12

Proverbs 9:15

Bible References

As for a prey

To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

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

Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

Increaseth

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters;

General references

Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says: