28She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.


In Context

25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.

26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

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

28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.

29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

Proverbs 23:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:28She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:28Like a bandit she lies in wait, and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:28She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:28Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:28She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.