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Selected Verse: Proverbs 23:27 - King James

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Pr 23:27 King James For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
deep ditch--a narrow pit, out of which it is hard to climb.

lieth in wait--to ensnare men into the pit, as hunters entrap game (compare Pro 22:14).
 
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14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.