Proverbs 23:27

Bible in Basic English 1965

For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

Cross References

Genesis 39:10

And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

Proverbs 2:16

To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

Proverbs 5:20

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

Proverbs 9:15

Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says: