Proverbs 22:14 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁴ The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall 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.

Proverbs 22:14 Cross References

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king 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 harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Deuteronomy 32:19

“The Lord saw it, and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.