Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28
And increases the
Cross References
Proverbs 7:12
Now without, now in the streets, she lies in wait at every corner.)
Ecclesiastes 7:26
and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are bonds; whosoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be held prisoner in her.
Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab,
Judges 16:4-22
And it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Proverbs 2:16-19
to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 7:22-27
He went after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not know that the dead are there and that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Hosea 4:11
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.
Revelation 17:1-2
And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto thee the condemnation of the great whore that sits upon many waters,