Proverbs 23:27

A whore is a deep ditch— See the note on chap. Proverbs 22:14.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 23:27

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...
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 Proverb...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

strange . foreign. Hebrew. nakar. See note on Proverbs 2:16 ; Proverbs 5:3 . Not the same word as in Proverbs 23:33 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. For a whore is a deep ditch - See on Proverbs 22:14 (note).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. A whore (is) a deep ditch ... a narrow pit - where the fall is great, and w...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

In Galilee there are scores of ancient cisterns, bottle-shaped, into which one may fall and find it impossible to climb out.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Strange woman ( nokhriyyah ) . — See above, on Proverbs 2:16 .
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 i...
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...
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 g...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For a whore [is] a deep ditch ,.... Or, "as a deep ditch", so Aben Ezra; to which she may be compared for the filthiness of her whoredoms, and for h...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. Ver. 27. For an whore is a deep ditch. ] Fitly so called, quod nullus neque...
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...
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 t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A deep ditch; in which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape.
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 tr...
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 th...
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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 27. For a whore, as opposed to the person of wisdom, is a deep ditch, and a strange woman, the outsider, the harlot, is a narrow pit, one yi...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 22:14

²⁷ For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 23:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 23:27