Proverbs 22:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ 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)

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The mouth of a mysterious woman is a deep pit; those under the LORD’s wrath will fall in it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ 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 King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Deuteronomy 32:19

The Lord saw it and was jealous; he spurned his sons and daughters.