27 For a prostitute is (A)a deep pit;
    (B)an adulteress[a] is a narrow (C)well.
28 (D)She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the traitors among mankind.

29 (E)Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has (F)wounds without cause?
    Who has (G)redness of eyes?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman

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