Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
New American Standard Bible
And increases the
King James Version
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Holman Bible
and increases those among men who are unfaithful.
International Standard Version
Surely she lies in wait like a bandit, increasing those who are faithless among mankind.
American Standard Version
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Amplified
She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey],
And she increases the faithless among men.
Darby Translation
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
Julia Smith Translation
She also will lie in wait as for prey, and she will add those transgressing among men.
King James 2000
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the unfaithful among men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
She [is] also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
Modern King James verseion
She also lies in wait as for prey, and increases the treacherous among men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
She lurketh like a thief, and those that be not aware, she bringeth unto her.
NET Bible
Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
New Heart English Bible
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
The Emphasized Bible
Yea, she, as for prey, lieth in wait, and, the treacherous among mankind, she causeth to abound.
Webster
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
World English Bible
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
Youngs Literal Translation
She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
Themes
Interlinear
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. 28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men. 29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
Cross References
Proverbs 7:12
Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
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.
Numbers 25:1
Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:
Judges 16:4-22
Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 7:22-27
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Jeremiah 3:2
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.
Hosea 4:11
Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.
1 Corinthians 10:8
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.
Revelation 17:1-2
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;