Proverbs 22:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

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  • Prov 23:27 : 27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
  • Prov 6:24-29 : 24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life. 27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? 28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
  • Prov 7:5-9 : 5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth. 6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window, 7 I saw among the young men one without sense, 8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house, 9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night. 10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; 11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house. 12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road. 13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: 14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected. 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you. 16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; 17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices. 18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights. 19 For the master of the house is away on a long journey: 20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon. 21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips. 22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; 23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side. 24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth; 25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps. 26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army. 27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
  • Deut 32:19 : 19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.
  • Judg 16:20-21 : 20 Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him. 21 So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld; 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. 7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you. 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: 10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me! 14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people. 15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. 16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. 17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. 19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms? 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales. 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:27-28
    2 verses
    85%

    27 For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

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

  • Prov 5:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

    3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

    6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 2:16-18
    3 verses
    78%

    16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

    17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

    18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

  • Prov 7:5
    77%

    5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    77%

    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Prov 23:33
    76%

    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Prov 5:20
    75%

    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Eccl 7:26
    73%

    26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 5:8
    72%

    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

  • Ezek 16:32
    72%

    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

    11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Prov 7:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

    22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

    23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

  • Prov 18:7
    71%

    7 The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

  • Prov 11:22
    71%

    22 Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

  • Prov 30:20
    71%

    20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

  • Mic 7:5
    70%

    5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

  • Ps 7:15
    70%

    15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

  • Prov 22:5
    70%

    5 Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.

  • Prov 17:20
    70%

    20 Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

  • Prov 26:27
    70%

    27 He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.

  • Prov 20:16
    70%

    16 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

  • Prov 14:1
    70%

    1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.

  • Prov 22:13
    70%

    13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

  • Prov 4:24
    70%

    24 Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

  • Prov 18:4
    70%

    4 The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Prov 27:13
    70%

    13 Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

  • Prov 9:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

    14 Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

  • Prov 6:32
    69%

    32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

  • Eccl 10:12
    69%

    12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

    9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 19:14
    69%

    14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Prov 10:14
    69%

    14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

  • Prov 28:10
    69%

    10 Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.