Proverbs 9:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 9:3 : 3 She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,
  • Prov 7:10-12 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 9:13
    85%

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

  • Prov 9:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

    2She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

    3She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 8:1-3
    3 verses
    82%

    1Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

    3Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:

  • Prov 9:15-16
    2 verses
    82%

    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

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

  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
    81%

    20Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places;

    21Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

  • Prov 7:10-13
    4 verses
    81%

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

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

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

    13So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

  • Prov 14:1
    76%

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

  • Prov 21:9
    76%

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

  • Prov 5:8
    74%

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

  • Prov 7:8
    74%

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

  • Prov 7:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

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

    6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

  • Prov 31:31
    73%

    31Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Prov 31:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.

    23Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

  • Prov 25:24
    72%

    24It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 31:27
    72%

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Prov 2:18
    72%

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

  • Prov 7:25-27
    3 verses
    72%

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

    26For 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.

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

  • Job 29:7
    71%

    7When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

  • Prov 8:34
    71%

    34Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

  • Job 39:28
    71%

    28When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

  • Prov 3:17
    71%

    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

  • Prov 4:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

    9She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

  • Prov 19:14
    71%

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

  • Prov 5:6
    70%

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

  • Prov 23:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

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

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

  • Isa 3:26
    70%

    26And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • Prov 22:14
    69%

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

  • Prov 24:7
    69%

    7Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

  • Ezek 16:31
    69%

    31For 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.

  • Prov 31:19
    69%

    19She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.

  • Prov 7:22
    69%

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

  • Job 39:18
    69%

    18Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?

  • Prov 31:14
    69%

    14She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

  • Prov 11:22
    69%

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