Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
She also lies in wait as for prey, and increases the treacherous 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.
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 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 strange woman is a narrow pit. 28 She also lies in wait as for prey, and increases the treacherous among men. 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fighting? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Cross References
Proverbs 7:12
now she is outside, now in the streets, and 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 like bands. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Numbers 25:1
And Israel lived in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab.
Judges 16:4-22
And it happened afterwards, he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Proverbs 2:16-19
They will deliver you from the strange woman, the stranger who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 7:22-27
He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Proverbs 9:18
But he does not know that the dead are there; her guests are in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; those despised by Jehovah shall fall there.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see. Where have you not been lain with? By the highways you have sat for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.
Hosea 4:11
Fornication and wine and new wine take away the heart.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.
Revelation 17:1-2
And one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot sitting on many waters,