Proverbs 23:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. ”

• Proverbs 23:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips c...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, (m) and increaseth the transgressors among men. (m) She seduces many and causes them to offend God.

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  transgressors . traitors.

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Increaseth the transgressors among men - More iniquity springs from this one source of evil, than from any other ca...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. She also lieth in wait as (for) a prey (or as rapine itself: the abstract for the concrete: or a plunderer),...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Increaseth the transgressors (faithless) among men. — This vice being the fruitful source of faithlessness both towards man and God.

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction fro...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey ,.... At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. Ver. 28. She also lieth in wait. ] Terence calls harlots Cruces crumenimulgas, sordida poscinummia, &c.,...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For a whore is a deep ditch In which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape. See the note on Proverbs 22:14 . She lieth in wait , &c. Wa...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.   20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:   21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty:...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Lieth in wait as for a prey; watching all opportunities of insnaring young men to their destruction. Increaseth the transgressors among men; she is the cause of innumerable sins against God, and...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 23:17 . Let not thine heart envy , etc. The verb translated envy refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “ strive after .” Miller renders it “ be...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 23:1 . When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. How many have stai...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 23:1-20 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the gue...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, like a highwayman, and increaseth the transgressors among men, multiplying the number of those who yield to her seductive arts and commit the sin of f...

  Read the comments

• Proverbs 23:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:8 ; Ecclesiastes 7:26 ; Hosea 4:11 ; Jeremiah 3:2 ; Judges 16:4-22 ; Numbers 25:1 ; Proverbs 2:16-19 ; Proverbs 22:14 ; Proverbs 7:12 ; Proverbs 7:22-27 ; Proverbs 9:18 ;...

  Read the comments