Proverbs 22:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit [for ensnaring wild animals]; he with whom the Lord is indignant and who is abhorrent to Him will fall into it.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The mouth of a mysterious woman is a deep pit; those under the LORD’s wrath will fall in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

Proverbs 22:14 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:26

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 strange women cause to sin.

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

Proverbs 23:27

For a whore is a deep ditch; And a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find a thing more bitter than death, even 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.

Deuteronomy 32:19

And the LORD saw it, and abhorred them, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.