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Proverbs 23:27

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

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  1. Proverbs 23:25

    Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

  2. Proverbs 23:26

    My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

  3. Proverbs 23:28

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

  4. Proverbs 23:29

    Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.