Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.
Proverbs 23:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, And increaseth the transgressors among men. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men. Common English Bible Indeed, she ambushes like a robber and increases the number of the faithless. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. |
Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.
The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.
For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.
A woman came to meet him dressed like a prostitute, having a hidden agenda.
But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, , the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.
Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day twenty-three thousand people died.