Proverbs 23:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ She also lieth in wait as for a prey, And increaseth the transgressors among men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Indeed, she ambushes like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ She lies in wait along the way like a robber. And the incautious one whom she sees, she will put to death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.

Proverbs 23:28 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 22:14

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

Proverbs 6:26

For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Proverbs 7:10

And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.

Proverbs 7:12

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.

Proverbs 9:18

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

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.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Hosea 4:11

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Numbers 25:1

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab:

1 Corinthians 10:8

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.