The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil: {mouth: Heb. palate}

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;

For {God} giveth to a man that {is} good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to {him that is} good before God. This also {is} vanity and vexation of spirit. {in his...: Heb. before him}

For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.

But he knoweth not that the dead {are} there; {and that} her guests {are} in the depths of hell.

The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

She also lieth in wait as {for} a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. {as for...: or, as a robber}

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. {of the...: or, of the strange tongue}

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or {if} I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. {stirred...: or, incited}

And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. {green...: or, new cords: Heb. moist}

Her house {is} the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as {did} the house of Ahab: for he {was} the son in law of the house of Ahab.

And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she {is} with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.

And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which {is} the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, {that}, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, {and become} bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters. {more: Heb. yet}

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

The fear of the LORD {is} a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.