Proverbs 23:27
Good News Translation
Prostitutes and immoral women are a deadly trap.

New Revised Standard Version
For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Contemporary English Version
Bad women and unfaithful wives are like a deep pit--

New American Bible
For the harlot is a deep pit, and the foreign woman a narrow well;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Context
True Riches
26My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways. 27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.…
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16
And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Proverbs 5:20
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

Proverbs 23:26
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