Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
She lurketh like a thief, and those that be not aware, she bringeth unto her.
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.
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 grave, and a harlot is a narrow pit. 28 She lurketh like a thief, and those that be not aware, she bringeth unto her. 29 Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes?
Cross References
Proverbs 7:12
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.
Numbers 25:1
And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab,
Judges 16:4-22
And after that he loved a woman, upon the river of Sorek, called Delilah
Proverbs 2:16-19
That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words,
Proverbs 7:22-27
suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -
Proverbs 9:18
But they consider not that death is there, and that her guests go down to hell.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes on every side, and look, if thou be not defiled. Thou hast waited for them in the streets, and as a murderer in the wilderness. through thy whoredoms and shameful blasphemies, is the land defiled.
Hosea 4:11
Whoredom, wine and drunkenness take the heart away.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed - in one day, twenty three thousand.
Revelation 17:1-2
And there came one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, "Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore, that sitteth upon many waters,