Proverbs 22 · Verse 14

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
Proverbs 22:14, King James Version

Proverbs 22:14 in other translations

BSBThe mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
WEBThe mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.
ASVThe mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
YLTA deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
DARBYThe mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
BBEThe mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
WebsterThe mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred by the LORD shall fall therein.

What does Proverbs 22:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. The mouth--or flattering speeches (Pr 5:3; 7:5) ensnare man, as pits, beasts. God makes their own sin their punishment.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit - In Pro 23:27, he says, A whore is a Deep Ditch:, oud a strange woman is a Narrow Pit. The allusions in these three places are too plain to be misunderstood. Virgil's hell has been adduced in illustration: - - Sate sanguine Divum, Tros Anchisiade, facilis decensus Averni; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis: Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc Opus, hic Labor est. Pauci quos aequus amavit Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus, Dis geniti potuere. Virg. Aen, lib. vi., ver. 125. "O glorious prince of brave Anchises' line! Great godlike hero! sprung from seed divine, Smooth lies the road to Pluto's gloomy shade; And hell's black gates for ever stand display'd: But 'tis a long unconquerable pain, To climb to these ethereal realms again. The choice-selected few, whom favoring Jove, Or their own virtue, rais'd to heaven above, From these dark realms emerged again to day; The mighty sons of gods, and only they. Pitt.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
The vile sin of licentiousness commonly besots the mind beyond recovery.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 22:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שׁוּחָ֣הshu.Chah[is] a pitH7745
עֲ֭מֻקָּה'A.mu.kahdeepH6013
פִּ֣יpi[the] mouth ofH6310
זָר֑וֹתza.Rotstrange [women]H2114
זְע֥וּםze.'Um[one who] is cursed ofH2194
יְ֝הוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068
יִפָּלyi.pol-he will fallH5307
שָֽׁם\׃ShamthereH8033

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 22:14

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26

    And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Proverbs 23:27

    For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

  • Proverbs 6:24-29

    To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? …

  • Nehemiah 13:26

    Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

  • Proverbs 7:5-27

    That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, …

  • Judges 16:20-21

    And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

  • Proverbs 2:16-19

    To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

  • Psalms 81:12

    So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

  • Deuteronomy 32:19

    And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

  • Proverbs 5:3-23

    For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
mouth.
2:16-19; 5:3-23; 6:24-29; 7:5-27; 23:27; Jud 16:20,21; Ne 13:26
Ec 7:26
a deep pit.That is, it is like a deep pit, or pitfall, in which animals are often taken alive.
abhorred.
De 32:19; Ps 81:12

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Context

  • Proverbs 22:13

    The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

  • Proverbs 22:14

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

  • Proverbs 22:15

    Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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Proverbs 22:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Sima profunda es la boca de las extrañas: aquel contra el cual estuviere Jehová airado, caerá en ella.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		La bouche des étrangères est une fosse profonde; celui contre qui l’ Éternel est irrité y tombera.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Der Mund fremder Weiber ist eine tiefe Grube; wem Jehova zürnt, der fällt hinein.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Fovea profunda os alienæ: cui iratus est Dominus, incidet in eam.