THEOSISProverbs 22:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲ֭מֻקָּה פִּ֣י זָר֑וֹת זְע֥וּם יְ֝הוָ֗ה יפול־יִפָּל־שָֽׁם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 7:26I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:
- Prov 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- Prov 6:24That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.
- Prov 6:29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
- Prov 7:5That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
- Prov 7:27Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
- Neh 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.
- Prov 2:16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;