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Proverbs 23:28
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KJ21
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
ASV
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
AMP
She lurks and lies in wait like a robber [who waits for prey], And she increases the faithless among men.
AMPC
She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.
BRG
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
CSB
indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.
CSBA
indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.
CEB
Indeed, she ambushes like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
CJB
She lies in wait to snatch her prey and adds to the number of faithless men.
CEV
they are waiting to attack you like a gang of robbers with victim after victim.
DARBY
She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
DRA
She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
ERV
A bad woman waits for you like a thief, and she causes many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
EASY
They are like robbers who wait to attack people. They take more and more men away from their wives.
EHV
She is also like a robber waiting to ambush someone, and she multiplies unfaithful men among the people.
ESV
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.
ESVUK
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.
EXB
They ambush you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
GNV
Also she lieth in wait as for a prey, and she increaseth the transgressors among men.
GW
She is like a robber, lying in ambush. She spreads unfaithfulness throughout society.
GNT
They wait for you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful.
HCSB
indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases those among men who are unfaithful.
ICB
They ambush you like robbers. And they cause many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
ISV
Surely she lies in wait like a bandit, increasing those who are faithless among mankind.
JUB
She also lies in wait as for a prey and increases the transgressors among men.
KJV
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
AKJV
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
LSB
Surely she lies in wait as a robber, And adds to the treacherous among men.
LEB
She is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
TLB
O my son, trust my advice—stay away from prostitutes. For a prostitute is a deep and narrow grave. Like a robber, she waits for her victims as one after another become unfaithful to their wives.
MSG
A prostitute is a bottomless pit; a loose woman can get you in deep trouble fast. She’ll take you for all you’ve got; she’s worse than a pack of thieves.
MEV
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
NOG
She is like a robber, lying in ambush. She spreads unfaithfulness throughout society.
NABRE
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the number of the faithless.
NASB
Certainly she lurks as a robber, And increases the treacherous among mankind.
NASB1995
Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men.
NCB
Such a woman lies in wait like a robber, and many are the men she deludes.
NCV
They ambush you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
NET
Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
NIRV
She hides and waits like a thief. She causes many men to sin.
NIV
Like a bandit she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
NIVUK
Like a bandit she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men.
NKJV
She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.
NLV
She lies in wait as a robber, and makes many more men not faithful.
NLT
She hides and waits like a robber, eager to make more men unfaithful.
NRSVA
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
NRSVACE
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
NRSVCE
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
NRSVUE
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.
OJB
She also lieth in wait like a road bandit, and increaseth the bogedim (unfaithful) among adam (mankind).
RGT
Also, she lies in wait, as if for a prey. And she increases the transgressors among men.
RSV
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
RSVCE
She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
TLV
Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
VOICE
She waits for you, ready to ambush you like a thief and ready to multiply unfaithfulness among men.
WEB
Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
WYC
She setteth ambush in the way, as a thief (She setteth ambush on the way, like a thief); and shall add despisers in men, that is, (she) shall multiply (the) despisers of God among men.
YLT
She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.
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