Proverbs 22:14 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

¹⁹ And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.

²⁰ And she said: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he awoke out of his sleep, and said: 'I will go out as at other times, and shake myself.' But he knew not that the LORD was departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless even him did the foreign women cause to sin.

¹² (81:13) So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words; ¹⁷ That forsaketh the lord of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades; ¹⁹ None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life;

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; ⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world; ⁶ Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not. ⁷ Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house; ⁹ Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien; ¹¹ And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; ¹³ Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! ¹⁴ I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.' ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets. ¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always. ²⁰ Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien? ²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths. ²² His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.

²⁴ To keep thee from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the alien tongue. ²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, but the adulteress hunteth for the precious life. ²⁷ Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸ Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? ²⁹ So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words. ⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice; ⁷ And I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, ⁸ Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house; ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. ¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart. ¹¹ She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house; ¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner. ¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him: ¹⁴ 'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows. ¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves. ¹⁹ For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; ²⁰ He hath taken the bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.' ²¹ With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away. ²² He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool; ²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare - and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life. ²⁴ Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. ²⁶ For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, a mighty host are all her slain. ²⁷ Her house is the way to the nether-world, going down to the chambers of death.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.

²⁶ and I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands; whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.