Proverbs 22:14

Modern

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

Traditional

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

Literal

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; the abhorred of YHWH will fall there.

Latin

Fovea profunda os alienæ: cui iratus est Dominus, incidet in eam.

Hebrew

English

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.

An immoral woman uses flattery and seduction to lure a young man into committing a sin.

Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Proverbs 23:27
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Proverbs 6:24–29
…to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Nehemiah 13:26
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
Proverbs 7:5–27
…that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Proverbs 2:16–19
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Judges 16:20–21
Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
Proverbs 5:3–23
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
Deuteronomy 32:19
When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Psalm 81:12
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.