Proverbs 30:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 39:27 : 27 Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?
  • Isa 40:31 : 31 But those who wait for the LORD’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.
  • Exod 22:16 : 16 Moral and Ceremonial Laws“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.

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    18There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:

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    20This is the way of an adulterous woman: she has eaten and wiped her mouth and has said,“I have not done wrong.”

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    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

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    26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

    27Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

  • Prov 5:18-21
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    18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–

    19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

    20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

    21For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.

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  • Prov 23:33-34
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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

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    21She turned him aside with her persuasions; with her smooth talk she was enticing him along.

    22Suddenly he was going after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper’s snare

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    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

  • Prov 30:29
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    29There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:

  • Prov 3:17
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    17Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

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    16Whoever contains her has contained the wind or can grasp oil with his right hand.

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    26I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter’s snare; her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

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    23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,

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    8Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.

  • Prov 5:8
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    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

  • Prov 2:20
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    20So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

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    3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

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    24You are like a wild female donkey brought up in the wilderness. In her lust she sniffs the wind to get the scent of a male. No one can hold her back when she is in heat. None of the males need wear themselves out chasing after her. At mating time she is easy to find.

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    23under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

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