Proverbs 23:27 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.

English ASV

For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

English Amplified

For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a wayward woman is a narrow well;

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

Prostitutes are a dangerous trap for men. Women who are not faithful to their husbands can cause men to fall into danger, like a deep well.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Prostitutes and bad women are a trap. They are like a deep well that you cannot escape.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Prostitutes and immoral women are a deadly trap.

English God's Word - GW 1995

A prostitute is a deep pit. A loose woman is a narrow well.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a forbidden woman is a narrow well;

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

For a harlot is a deep pit And a foreign woman is a narrow well.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and an adulteress is a narrow well.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

For the harlot is a deep ditch, and the adulteress a narrow pit;

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

A prostitute is like a deep pit. A wife who commits adultery is like a narrow well.

English NIV

for a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

English NKJ 1982

For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well.

English NLT

A prostitute is a deep pit; an adulterous woman is treacherous.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

Stay far away from prostitutes and you’ll stay far away from the pit of destruction. For sleeping with a promiscuous woman is like falling into a trap that you’ll never be able to escape!

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For a prostitute is a deep and narrow grave.

English Tyndale 1537

For an whore is a deep grave, and an harlot is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 23:27 — Compare Translations