Devine Scripture

Proverbs 23:28

Proverbs chapter 23 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Context

v.27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

v.28This passage

v.29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 9:18

    But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:8

    Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

  • Judges 16:4

    And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

  • Proverbs 22:14

    The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

  • Proverbs 7:22

    He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or asone infetters to the correction of the fool;

  • Proverbs 7:12

    Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)