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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 23, Verse 27

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26
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
King James Version
For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
American Standard Version
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
New English Translation
for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
World English Bible
For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28
She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35
They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
1
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
2
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.