Proverbs 23:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; And a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

Common English Bible

²⁷ A prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 23:27 Cross References

Genesis 39:10

And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her.

Proverbs 2:16

You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 22:14

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

Proverbs 5:20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Proverbs 9:15

calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,