Proverbs 23:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁷For a prostitute is a deep pit;
an adulteress^[a] is a narrow well.
²⁸She lies in wait like a robber
and increases the number of the faithless.

²⁹Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Proverbs 23:27 Heb an alien woman

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.