Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Surely she lurks as a robber,
And increases the faithless among men.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber
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.

Bible in Basic English

Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארב 
'arab 
Usage: 42

as for a prey
חתף 
Chetheph 
Usage: 1

יסף 
Yacaph 
Usage: 208

Verse Info

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well. 28 Surely she lurks as a robber,
And increases the faithless among men.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Cross References

Proverbs 7:12

now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Numbers 25:1

While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.

Judges 16:4-22

After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Proverbs 2:16-19

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 7:22-27

All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.

Hosea 4:11

whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.

1 Corinthians 10:8

We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Revelation 17:1-2

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,

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