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Selected Verse: Proverbs 22:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 22:14 |
King James |
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The mouth--or flattering speeches (Pro 5:3; Pro 7:5) ensnare man, as pits, beasts. God makes their own sin their punishment. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The fall of the man into the snare of the harlot seems to be the consequence of the abhorrence or wrath of Yahweh. That abhorrence is, however, the result of previous evil. The man is left to himself, and sin becomes the penalty of sin. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
14 A deep pit is the mouth of a strange woman;
He that is cursed of God falleth therein.
The first line appears in a different form as a synonymous distich, Pro 23:27. The lxx translate στόμα παρανόμου without certainly indicating which word they here read, whether רע (Pro 4:14), or רשׁע (Pro 29:12), or נלוז (Pro 3:32). Pro 23:27 is adduced in support of זרות (vid., Pro 2:16); זנות (harlots) are meant, and it is not necessary thus to read with Ewald. The mouth of this strange woman or depraved Israelitess is a deep ditch (שׁוּחה עמקּה, otherwise עמקה, as Pro 23:27, where also occurs עמוּקה
(Note: The text to Immanuel's Comment. (Naples 1487) has in both instances עמוּקה.)
namely, a snare-pit into which he is enticed by her wanton words; the man who stands in fellowship with God is armed against this syren voice; but the 'זעוּם ה, i.e., he who is an object of the divine זעם (Venet. κεχολωμένος τῷ ὀντωτῇ), indignation, punishing evil with evil, falls into the pit, yielding to the seduction and the ruin. Schultens explains 'זעום ה by, is in quem despumat indignabundus; but the meaning despumat is not substantiated; זעם, cf. Arab. zaghm, is probably a word which by its sound denoted anger as a hollow roaring, and like pealing thunder. The lxx has, after Pro 22:14, three tedious moralizing lines. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The mouth - Her fair and flattering speeches. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.