27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go . Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: “ Here, my son, and be wise , Prov. 23:19. This will be an evidence that tho…
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