Proverbs 22:14 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁴ A deep pit is the mouth of adulterous women: he that hath obtained the indignation of the Lord will fall thereinto.

¹⁹ And the Lord saw this, and he was angry; because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.

²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself free. But he knew not that the Lord had departed from him. ²¹ And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazzah, and bound him with fetters of copper; and he had to grind in the prison-house.

²⁶ Did not Solomon the king of Israel sin by these things? and although among the many nations there was never a king like him, and beloved as he was by his God, and God had placed him as king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did the alien women mislead to sin.

^{12 (81:13)} So I let them go in the stubbornness of their own hearts: and they walked in their own counsels.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the adulteress, from the alien woman that useth flattering speeches; ¹⁷ That forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For she sinketh unto death—her house, and unto the departed lead her tracks. ¹⁹ All that come unto her return not again, and they will not reach the paths of life.

³ For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate; ⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world: ⁶ So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not. ⁷ And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house; ⁹ That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel; ¹⁰ That strangers may not satisfy themselves with thy strength, and with thy exertions, in the house of an alien: ¹¹ While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end, ¹² And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof; ¹³ While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear; ¹⁴ But little more was wanting, and I had been in all kinds of unhappiness in the midst of the congregation and assembly. ¹⁵ Drink water out of thy own cistern, and running waters out of thy own well. ¹⁶ So will thy springs overflow abroad; and in the open streets will be thy rivulets of water; ¹⁷ They will be thy own only, and not those of strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Thy fountain will be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth,— ¹⁹ The lovely gazelle and the graceful chamois: let her bosom satisfy thee abundantly at all times; with her love be thou ravished continually. ²⁰ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman? ²¹ For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance. ²² His own iniquities will truly catch the wicked, and with the cords of his sin will he be held firmly. ²³ He will indeed die for want of correction; and through the abundance of his folly will he sink into error.

²⁴ To guard thee against a bad woman, from the flattery of an alien tongue. ²⁵ Covet not her beauty in thy heart, and let her not conquer thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For by means of a harlot one is brought down to the last loaf of bread: and an adulterous woman will even hunt for the precious life, ²⁷ Can a man gather up fire in his lap, and shall his clothes not be burnt? ²⁸ Can a man walk along upon hot coals, and shall his feet not be burnt? ²⁹ So it is with him that goeth in to his neighbor’s wife: no one that toucheth her shall remain unpunished.

⁵ That they may keep thee from an adulterous woman, from an alien that useth flattering speeches. ⁶ For through the window of my house, through my lattice did I once look out, ⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a lad void of sense; ⁸ He was passing through the market-place near her corner; and he stepped along on the way to her house, ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the depth of the night and when it was dark: ¹⁰ And, behold, a woman came to meet him with the attire of a harlot, and obdurate of heart. ¹¹ (She is noisy and ungovernable; in her house her feet never rest; ¹² At one time she is in the street, at another in the open places, and near every corner doth she lurk,) ¹³ And she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him, ¹⁴ “I had bound myself to bring peace-offerings; this day have I paid my vows: ¹⁵ Therefore am I come forth to meet thee, to seek thy presence diligently, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed, with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt. ¹⁷ I have sprinkled my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us indulge in love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with dalliances. ¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way off: ²⁰ The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.” ²¹ She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him. ²² He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool: ²³ Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life. ²⁴ And now, O children, hearken unto me, and listen to the sayings of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways, do not go astray on her paths. ²⁶ For many deadly wounded hath she caused to fall: yea, very numerous are all those slain by her. ²⁷ The ways to the nether world is her house leading down to the chambers of death.

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow well.

²⁶ And I find as more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bonds: he that is deemed good before God will escape from her; but the sinner will be caught by her.