Proverbs 23:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Prov 22:14 : 14 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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  • 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

  • Prov 6:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

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

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

  • Prov 2:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

    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:

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

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    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.

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    31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

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

    33 They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

    34 And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.

    35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:

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

  • Prov 7:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    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 7:25-27
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    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.

  • 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.

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

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

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    19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake on a rock; the way of a ship in the heart of the sea; and the way of a man with a girl.

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

  • 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
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    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,

  • 26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

  • 23 A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

  • Prov 7:21-23
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    70%

    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.

  • 29 Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • 2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • 17 And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

  • 16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

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

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

  • 4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

  • 8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • 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.

  • 15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.