Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
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Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
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She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the faithless among men.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 23:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
- Proverbs 7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
- Hosea 4:11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
- Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
- Revelation 17:1-2 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
- Proverbs 2:16-19 to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.
- Proverbs 7:22-27 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life. Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths, for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
- Jeremiah 3:2 “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
- Numbers 25:1 Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
- Judges 16:4-22 It came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.” Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.” Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner room. She said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He broke the cords as a flax thread is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known. Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.” He said to her, “If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.” So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them, then said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread. Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.” She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are on you, Samson!” He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam and the fabric. She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death. He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.” When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him. The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison. However, the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.
- Proverbs 9:18 But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain She seduceth many and causeth them to offend God.
She seduceth many and causeth them to offend God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 23:28 She also lieth in wait as [for]…
Pro 23:28 She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Ver. 28. She also lieth in wait.] Terence calls harlots Cruces crumenimulgas, sordida poscinummia, &c., base beg pennies, pick purses, &c. See the notes upon Pro 7:1-27. {See Trapp on "Pro 7:1"} &c
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And increaseth the transgressors among men.] Nothing hath ever so enriched hell as the whorish woman. See above.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Lieth in wait as for a prey; watching all…
Lieth in wait as for a prey; watching all opportunities of insnaring young men to their destruction.
Increaseth the transgressors among men; she is the cause of innumerable sins against God, and against the marriage-bed, against the soul and body too, and by her wicked example and arts involveth many persons in the guilt of her sins.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain She also lieth in wait as for a prey,....…
She also lieth in wait as for a prey,.... At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a prey of their virtue and of their money. Or, "as a man of prey" (k); a thief and robber, so Gersom; thus she watches and takes all opportunities to seize on persons, and rob them of their substance, health, and credit; or rather "as a beast of prey"; ravenous, devouring, and insatiable; so the Targum,
"as a beast ravening, she lies in wait with her eyes;''
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and increaseth the transgressors among men; there is none that occasions wore sin, or makes more sinners, than a whorish woman; swearing, lying, drunkenness, thieving, stealing, housebreaking, robbing on the highway, &c. are the sins she leads into. Or, "increaseth treacherous" (l) persons; to God, to their king, to their wives, to their master's; and all that they may consume, what they can get by perfidious practices, upon them, or,
"perfidious persons among men, she adds "to herself" (m);''
she gets a parcel of abandoned wretches about her, whom she employs as her panders for her lust, or as bullies to spoil her gallants of their substance, or murder them for the sake of it.
(k) "tanquam vir praedae", Vatablus; "ut praedator", Mercerus, Gejerus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "ut raptor", Cocceius; "velut praedo", Michaelis; "ut harpago", Schultens. (l) "perfidos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schultens. (m) "adjungitque sibi", Tigurine version.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 28. Increaseth the transgressors among men.] More iniquity…
Verse 28. Increaseth the transgressors among men.] More iniquity springs from this one source of evil, than from any other cause in the whole system of sin. Women and strong drink cause many millions to transgress.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Him. Protestants, "increaseth the transgressors among men," (Haydock) and…
Him. Protestants, "increaseth the transgressors among men," (Haydock) and like a harpy, kills all whom she can entrap.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain increaseth . . . transgressors-- (Pro 5:8-10). The vice…
increaseth . . . transgressors-- (Pro 5:8-10). The vice alluded to is peculiarly hardening to the heart.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. as for a prey] Better, with A.V. marg.,…
28. as for a prey] Better, with A.V. marg., R.V. text, as a robber.
transgressors] Better, treacherous. Those whom she seduces become in their turn seducers and untrustworthy in similar relations.
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The Evils of Drunkenness, Pro_23:29-35.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (28) Increaseth the transgressors (faithless) among men.—This vice being…
(28) Increaseth the transgressors (faithless) among men.—This vice being the fruitful source of faithlessness both towards man and God.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain She also lieth in wait as for a prey.…
She also lieth in wait as for a prey. "Yea, she (Pro_22:19) lieth in wait," as is graphically described in Pr 7. (comp. Jer_3:2) Chetheph is better taken, not as "prey," but in a concrete sense as the person who snatches it, the robber. Vulgate, Insidiatur in via quasi latro. (comp. Psa_10:9) And increaseth the transgressors among men. The Greek and Latin versions have taken pysiwOr as meaning "kills," "destroys." But the verb yasaph always means "to add," here "to multiply." The special transgression indicated is treachery or faithlessness. The harlot leads her victim to be faithless to his God, his wife, his parents, his tutor, his master. Septuagint, "For he shall perish suddenly, and every transgressor shall be destroyed."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 28. She also lieth in wait as for…
v. 28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, like a highwayman, and increaseth the transgressors among men, multiplying the number of those who yield to her seductive arts and commit the sin of fornication or adultery. cf Pro 7:5-23.
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