Proverbs 22:14 Cross References - NSB

¹⁴ The mouth of the adulterous is a deep pit. The one who is cursed by Jehovah will fall into it.

¹⁹ »Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry.

²⁰ She shouted: »Samson! The Philistines are coming!« He woke up and thought: »I will get loose and go free, as always.« He did not know that Jehovah had left him. ²¹ The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.

²⁶ »Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? Among a number of nations there was no king like him. He was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But even he was made to do evil by strange women.

¹² »Therefore I gave them over to their stubborn hearts. They walked in their own counsel.

¹⁶ You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk. ¹⁷ She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God. ¹⁸ If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead. ¹⁹ No one who visits her ever comes back. He cannot return to the road to life.

³ The lips of an immoral woman drip as a honeycomb. Her mouth is smoother than oil. ⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of the grave. ⁶ She does not ponder the path of life. Her unstable ways she does not know. ⁷ Hear me now my son. Do not depart from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house. ⁹ You will give your honor (majesty) to others and your years to the cruel one. ¹⁰ Strangers will be filled with your financial strength. Strangers will benefit from your hard work. ¹¹ You mourn at last, when your flesh and your body are consumed. ¹² You say: »How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof. ¹³ »I did not obey the voice of my teachers. I did not listen to my instructors! ¹⁴ »I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation.« ¹⁵ Drink water from your own cistern. Drink running water from your own well. ¹⁶ Should your waters overflow in the streets, like streams of water in public places? ¹⁷ Let them be yours alone. Do not share with strangers. ¹⁸ Let your fountain be blessed. Rejoice with the wife of your youth. ¹⁹ She is like a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Always be delighted with her love. ²⁰ Why will you be intimate with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ²¹ The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths. ²² His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins. ²³ He dies without instruction. He goes astray because of his foolishness.

²⁴ This will keep you from the evil woman and from the smooth tongue of an adulterous woman. ²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in your heart. Do not let her attract you with her eyelids. ²⁶ A prostitute will cost you your last crust of bread. An adulteress will cost you your life. ²⁷ Can a man have fire in his lap and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸ Can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be burned? ²⁹ He who has sex with another mans wife; anyone who embraces her will not be innocent.

⁵ That they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words. ⁶ I looked out the window of my house. ⁷ I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man without understanding. ⁸ He passed through the street near her corner. He went to her house. ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening, in the darkness of the night: ¹⁰ He met an evil hearted woman dressed seductively like an immoral woman. ¹¹ She is loud and rebellious and never stays at home. ¹² Now in the streets and squares, she waits at every corner. ¹³ She put her arms around him and kissed him, and with an impudent look she said: ¹⁴ »I have peace offerings with me since I paid my vows. ¹⁵ »So I came to meet you and seek your presence. I found you. ¹⁶ »I covered my bed with fine linen from Egypt. ¹⁷ »I perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ »Come; let us take our fill of love until morning. Let us comfort ourselves with love. ¹⁹ »My husband is not at home. He went on a long trip. ²⁰ »He took a bag of money with him. He will come home at the appointed day.« ²¹ She seduced him with her persuasive words. She forced him with her flattering lips. ²² He immediately goes after her. He is like a bull that goes to the slaughter. Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, ²³ Till a dart strikes through his liver. The bird hurries to the snare without knowing it would cost his life. ²⁴ Listen to me dear sons and pay attention to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Do not let your heart go after her ways. Do not stray in her paths. ²⁶ She has wounded many. Many strong men have been slain by her. ²⁷ Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

²⁷ A prostitute is a deep pit. An adulterous wife is a well of tribulation.

²⁶ I find what was worse than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape from her. But she will capture the sinner.