Proverbs 23:28

Bible in Basic English 1965

Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

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 22:14

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

Proverbs 6:26

For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

Proverbs 7:10

And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

Proverbs 7:12

Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

Proverbs 9:18

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

Jeremiah 3:2

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

Hosea 4:11

Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

Numbers 25:1

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

1 Corinthians 10:8

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.