Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
She also will lie in wait as for prey, and she will add those transgressing 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.
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.
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 harlot is a deep ditch; and a strong woman a narrow well. 28 She also will lie in wait as for prey, and she will add those transgressing among men. 29 To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes?
Cross References
Proverbs 7:12
One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.
Numbers 25:1
And Israel will dwell in Shittim, and the people will begin to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
Judges 16:4-22
And it will be after this, and he will love a woman in the valley of Shorek, and her name Delilah.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings;
Proverbs 7:22-27
He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.
Proverbs 9:18
And he knew not that there the shades; her called ones in the depths of hades
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of the strange woman a deep pit: and he cursing Jehovah shall fall there.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil
Hosea 4:11
Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
Revelation 17:1-2
And one of the seven angels having the seven vials, came and spake with me, saying to me, Come; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot sitting upon many waters: