So whenever she spoke to Joseph, day after day, he did not listen to her invitation to lie down beside her, to be with her.
Proverbs 23:28 - Tree of Life Version Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. 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. |
So whenever she spoke to Joseph, day after day, he did not listen to her invitation to lie down beside her, to be with her.
The mouth of a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.
For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.
All of a sudden, a woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute and with a cunning heart.
But he does not know that the dead are there— her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.
“Lift your eyes to the barren hills and see! Where have you not been violated? By the wayside you sat waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to have immoral sexual relations with women from Moab.
And let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day 23,000 fell.