Verse 28
Proverbs 23:28
Literal Standard Version
28
She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַף הִ֭יא כְּ/חֶ֣תֶף תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑ב וּ֝/בוֹגְדִ֗ים בְּ/אָדָ֥ם תּוֹסִֽף
English Translation
She also lies in wait like a thief, and the treacherous men add to their deceit.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
When you sit to eat with a ruler, || Diligently consider that which is before you,
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And you have put a knife to your throat, || If you are a man of appetite.
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Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it is lying food.
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Do not labor to make wealth, || Cease from your own understanding, || Do you cause your eyes to fly...
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For wealth makes wings to itself, || It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
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Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, || And have no desire to his delicacies,
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For as he has thought in his soul, so he is. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, || And his heart is no...
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You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, || And have marred your words that are sweet.
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9
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, || For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
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10
Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
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11
For their Redeemer is strong, || He pleads their cause with you.
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12
Bring your heart to instruction, || And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
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13
Do not withhold discipline from a youth, || When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
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14
You strike him with a rod, || And you deliver his soul from Sheol.
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15
My son, if your heart has been wise, || My heart rejoices, even mine,
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16
And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
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17
Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, || But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
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18
For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.
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19
Hear, my son, and be wise, || And make your heart blessed in the way,
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20
Do not become drunk with wine, || Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
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For the drunkard and glutton become poor, || And drowsiness clothes with rags.
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22
Listen to your father, who begot you, || And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
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23
Buy truth, and do not sell, || Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
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24
The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, || The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.
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Your father and your mother rejoice, || Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
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26
Give, my son, your heart to me, || And let your eyes watch my ways.
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27
For a harlot is a deep ditch, || And a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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28
She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men.
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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? W...
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Those lingering by the wine, || Those going in to search out mixed wine.
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Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and d...
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Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.
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Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things.
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And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, || And as one lying down on the top of...
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35
“They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet...
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