Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Like a bandit she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men. New Living Translation She hides and waits like a robber, eager to make more men unfaithful. English Standard Version She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind. Berean Standard Bible Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. King James Bible She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. New King James Version She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men. New American Standard Bible Certainly she lurks as a robber, And increases the treacherous among mankind. NASB 1995 Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men. NASB 1977 Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men. Legacy Standard Bible Surely she lies in wait as a robber, And adds to the treacherous among men. Amplified Bible She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey], And she increases the faithless among men. Christian Standard Bible indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people. Holman Christian Standard Bible indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases those among men who are unfaithful. American Standard Version Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men. Aramaic Bible in Plain English She destroys suddenly and many evil men multiply. Brenton Septuagint Translation For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off. Contemporary English Version they are waiting to attack you like a gang of robbers with victim after victim. Douay-Rheims Bible She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. English Revised Version Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men. GOD'S WORD® Translation She is like a robber, lying in ambush. She spreads unfaithfulness throughout society. Good News Translation They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful. International Standard Version Surely she lies in wait like a bandit, increasing those who are faithless among mankind. JPS Tanakh 1917 She also lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the faithless among men. Literal Standard Version She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, | And she increases the treacherous among men. Majority Standard Bible Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. New American Bible Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the number of the faithless. NET Bible Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. New Revised Standard Version She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless. New Heart English Bible Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. Webster's Bible Translation She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. World English Bible Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men. Young's Literal Translation She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context True Riches…27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. 28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. 29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?… Cross References Proverbs 6:26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Proverbs 7:12 Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Treasury of Scripture She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men. as for a prey or as a robber Proverbs 2:16-19 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; … Proverbs 7:12,22-27 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) … Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. increaseth Numbers 25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. Hosea 4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. 1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Jump to Previous Bandit Beast Catching Deceit Faithless Food Increased Increases Increaseth Lies Multiplies Prey Robber Secretly Surely Transgressors Unfaithful Wait WaitingJump to Next Bandit Beast Catching Deceit Faithless Food Increased Increases Increaseth Lies Multiplies Prey Robber Secretly Surely Transgressors Unfaithful Wait WaitingProverbs 23 1. Consider carefully what is before you(28) Increaseth the transgressors (faithless) among men.--This vice being the fruitful source of faithlessness both towards man and God.Verse 28. - She also lieth in wait as for a prey. "Yea, she [Proverbs 22:19] lieth in wait," as is graphically described in ch. 7. (comp. Jeremiah 3:2). Chetheph is better taken, not as "prey," but in a concrete sense as the person who snatches it, the robber. Vulgate, Insidiatur in via quasi latro (comp. Psalm 10:9). And increaseth the transgressors among men. The Greek and Latin versions have taken רוסִיפ as meaning "kills," "destroys." But the verb yasaph always means "to add," here "to multiply." The special transgression indicated is treachery or faithlessness. The harlot leads her victim to be faithless to his God, his wife, his parents, his tutor, his master. Septuagint, "For he shall perish suddenly, and every transgressor shall be destroyed." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Like a robberכְּחֶ֣תֶף (kə·ḥe·ṯep̄) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2863: Rapine, robbery she הִ֭יא (hî) Pronoun - third person feminine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are lies in wait תֶּֽאֱרֹ֑ב (te·’ĕ·rōḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 693: To lie in wait and multiplies תּוֹסִֽף׃ (tō·w·sip̄) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 3254: To add, augment the faithless וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים (ū·ḇō·wḡ·ḏîm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 898: To cover, to act covertly, to pillage among men. בְּאָדָ֥ם (bə·’ā·ḏām) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being Links Proverbs 23:28 NIVProverbs 23:28 NLT Proverbs 23:28 ESV Proverbs 23:28 NASB Proverbs 23:28 KJV Proverbs 23:28 BibleApps.com Proverbs 23:28 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 23:28 Chinese Bible Proverbs 23:28 French Bible Proverbs 23:28 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 23:28 Yes she lies in wait like (Prov. 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