Proverbs 23:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 22:14

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

Proverbs 5:20

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 9:15

To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways,