26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
28Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 23:26-28
Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness
The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.
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Verse 26
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My sonבְנִ֣יH1121Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singulargive meתְּנָֽה־H5414Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singularyour heartלִבְּךָ֣H3820Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularand let your eyesוְ֝עֵינֶ֗יךָH5869Conjunctive waw | Noun - cdc | second person masculine singulardelightתִּרְצֶנָה׃H7521Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine pluralin my waysדְּרָכַ֥יH1870Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Verse 27
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Forכִּֽי־H3588Conjunctiona prostituteזוֹנָ֑הH2181Noun - feminine singularis a deepעֲמֻקָּ֣הH6013Adjective - feminine singularpitשׁוּחָ֣הH7745Noun - feminine singularand an adulteressנָכְרִיָּֽה׃H5237Adjective - feminine singularis a narrowצָ֝רָ֗הH6862Adjective - feminine singularwellוּבְאֵ֥רH875Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
BSB notes
- Or a foreign woman or a wayward wife
Verse 28
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Like a robberכְּחֶ֣תֶףH2863Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular-אַף־H637Conjunctionsheהִ֭יאH1931Pronoun - third person feminine singularlies in waitתֶּֽאֱרֹ֑בH693Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singularand multipliesתּוֹסִֽף׃H3254Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singularthe faithlessוּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗יםH898Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine pluralamong menבְּאָדָ֥םH120Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular