Proverbs 23:28Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
אַף־הִ֭יא כְּחֶ֣תֶף תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑ב וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים בְּאָדָ֥ם תּוֹסִֽף׃
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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 7:12Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
- Hos 4:11Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.
- 1 Cor 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- Prov 22:14The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.
- Jer 3:2Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness.
- Prov 2:16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;
- Prov 2:19None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.