Proverbs 6:32 Cross References - Thomson

³² But he, who through want of understanding, committeth adultery, provideth destruction for his soul.

⁹ and there is none in the family superior to me, nor any thing withheld from me, except thyself because thou art his wife; how then can I do this wicked act and commit sin in the presence of God. ¹⁰ And when she had spoken to Joseph day after day and he hearkened not to her to lie down with her to have commerce with her,

³⁹ Then Pharao said to Joseph, Seeing God hath shewn thee all these things, there is none more prudent and wise than thou thyself.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not steal.

¹⁸ For she hath placed her house near death; and her wheels with the earth born near the mansion of the dead. ¹⁹ None who walk by her direction can ever return; nor ever recover the right paths.

²² Iniquities hunt a man; but every one is caught by the cords of his own sins. ²³ Such a one dieth with the uninstructed, but from his plentiful means of living he was cast out, and perished by reason of folly.

⁷ and if among the simple youths she chanceth to see a young man, void of understanding,

²² And he is gone after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver with a dart. ²³ And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not knowing that he is running the risk of his life.

³⁶ But they who sin against me act wickedly against their own souls; and they who hate me love death."

⁴ "Whosoever is simple, let him come to me." And to them who want understanding she saith,

¹⁶ "Let him who is the simplest of you turn aside to me; and them who want prudence I exhort saying, ¹⁷ Taste sweetly bread in secret and water sweeter for being stolen. ¹⁸ He indeed did not know that with her the earth born perish; that he is lighting upon the perch of death. But fly thou away speedily; tarry not in that place, nor fix thine eyes upon her; for in this manner thou shouldst pass by strange water. Abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain; that thou mayst live long, and that years of life may be added to thee.

²⁵ I took a circuit with my heart to know and examine carefully and to seek wisdom and a mode of calculating, and to gain a knowledge of a particular folly and disquietude and madness of one destitute of the fear of God; and I find and an declare, ²⁶ That bitterer than death is that whole class of women who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be delivered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them.

⁸ They became furious wanton steeds; they neighed every one for his neigh hour's wife.

²¹ [p] Hear these things I beseech you, O foolish and stupid people! [J] They have eyes, but they do not see; ears they have, but they do not hear.

³¹ Cast away from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously committed against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: now why do you die, house of Israel,

¹¹ to attend to fornication and wine, therefore the heart of my people embraced drunkenness. ¹² They consulted by symbols and gave them answers by their staves. By a spirit of fornication they were led astray; and they went a whoring from their God.

⁹ In thy destruction, Israel, who can give succour?

²² pretending to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles; ²⁴ therefore God delivered them up, by the desires of their own hearts, to impurity, that by themselves their own bodies might be dishonoured.

⁴ Let marriage be held in esteem by all, and its bed be undefiled: for whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.