She hides and waits like a thief. She causes many men to sin.

她埋伏好像强盗；她使人中多有奸诈的。

她像强盗埋伏，她使奸诈的人增多。

她像强盗埋伏，她使奸诈的人增多。

她像强盗般埋伏，使世间增添奸徒。

她像强盗一样埋伏，使人间增添很多奸诈的人。

她甚至像强盗那样埋伏，使背信的男人增多。

她埋伏好像強盜；她使人中多有奸詐的。

她像強盜埋伏，她使奸詐的人增多。

她像強盜埋伏，她使奸詐的人增多。

她像強盜般埋伏，使世間增添奸徒。

她像強盜一樣埋伏，使人間增添很多奸詐的人。

她並且埋伏着像強盜，使人間增加背信奸詐的人。

她甚至像強盜那樣埋伏，使背信的男人增多。

伏藏如盜、增奸邪於人間、

隨在匿跡以誘人、使蹈罪愆。

伏藏若賊、使世間增悖逆之人、

Like a bandit she lies in wait and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.

She hides and waits like a robber, eager to make more men unfaithful.

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.

Certainly she lurks as a robber, And increases the treacherous among mankind.

She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.

Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases those among men who are unfaithful.

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

Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

A woman who hunts a man down is more painful than death. Her heart is like a trap. Her hands are like chains. A man who pleases God will try to get away from her. But she will trap a sinner.

Sometimes she’s in the streets. Sometimes she’s at other places. At every corner she waits.

The mouth of a woman who commits adultery is like a deep pit. Any man the Lord is angry with falls into it.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me. He said,“ Come. I will show you how the great prostitute will be punished. She is the one who sits by many waters.The kings of the earth took part in her evil ways. The people living on earth were drunk with the wine of her terrible sins.”

Wisdom will save you from a woman who commits adultery. It will save you from a sinful woman and her tempting words.She has left the man she married when she was young. She has broken the promise she made in front of God.Surely her house leads down to death. Her paths lead to the spirits of the dead.No one who goes to her comes back or reaches the paths of life.

Israel was staying in Shittim. The men of Israel began to commit sexual sins with the women of Moab.

“ Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there any place where you have not worshiped other gods? You have been unfaithful to me like a wife committing adultery. By the side of the road you sat waiting for lovers. You sat there like someone who wanders in the desert. You have made the land impure. You are like a sinful prostitute.

with prostitutes. They drink old wine and fresh wine. Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.

Some time later, Samson fell in love again. The woman lived in the Valley of Sorek. Her name was Delilah.The rulers of the Philistines went to her. They said,“ See if you can get him to tell you the secret of why he’s so strong. Find out how we can overpower him. Then we can tie him up. We can bring him under our control. Each of us will give you 28 pounds of silver.”So Delilah said to Samson,“ Tell me the secret of why you are so strong. Tell me how you can be tied up and controlled.”Samson answered her,“ Let someone tie me up with seven new bowstrings. They must be strings that aren’t completely dry. Then I’ll become as weak as any other man.”So the Philistine rulers brought seven new bowstrings to her. They weren’t completely dry. Delilah tied Samson up with them.Men were hiding in the room. She called out to him,“ Samson! The Philistines are attacking you!” But he snapped the bowstrings easily. They were like pieces of string that had come too close to a flame. So the secret of why he was so strong wasn’t discovered.Delilah spoke to Samson again.“ You have made me look foolish,” she said.“ You told me a lie. Come on. Tell me how you can be tied up.”Samson said,“ Let someone tie me tightly with new ropes. They must be ropes that have never been used. Then I’ll become as weak as any other man.”So Delilah got some new ropes. She tied him up with them. Men were hiding in the room. She called out to him,“ Samson! The Philistines are attacking you!” But he snapped the ropes off his arms. They fell off just as if they were threads.Delilah spoke to Samson again.“ All this time you have been making me look foolish,” she said.“ You have been telling me lies. This time really tell me how you can be tied up.” He replied,“ Weave the seven braids of my hair into the cloth on a loom. Then tighten the cloth with a pin. If you do, I’ll become as weak as any other man.” So while Samson was sleeping, Delilah took hold of the seven braids of his hair. She wove them into the cloth on a loom.Then she tightened the cloth with a pin. Again she called out to him,“ Samson! The Philistines are attacking you!” He woke up from his sleep. He pulled up the pin and the loom, together with the cloth.Then she said to him,“ How can you say,‘ I love you’? You won’t even share your secret with me. This is the third time you have made me look foolish. And you still haven’t told me the secret of why you are so strong.”She continued to pester him day after day. She nagged him until he was sick and tired of it.So he told her everything. He said,“ My hair has never been cut. That’s because I’ve been a Nazirite since the day I was born. A Nazirite is set apart to God. If you shave my head, I won’t be strong anymore. I’ll become as weak as any other man.”Delilah realized he had told her everything. So she sent a message to the Philistine rulers. She said,“ Come back one more time. He has told me everything.” So the rulers returned. They brought the silver with them.Delilah got Samson to go to sleep on her lap. Then she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair. That’s how she began to bring Samson under her control. And he wasn’t strong anymore.She called out,“ Samson! The Philistines are attacking you!” He woke up from his sleep. He thought,“ I’ll go out just as I did before. I’ll shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the Lord had left him.Then the Philistines grabbed him. They poked his eyes out. They took him down to Gaza. They put bronze chains around him. Then they made him grind grain in the prison.His head had been shaved. But the hair on it began to grow again.

But they don’t know that dead people are there. They don’t know that her guests are deep in the place of the dead.

All at once he followed her. He was like an ox going to be killed. He was like a deer stepping into a trapuntil an arrow struck its liver. He was like a bird rushing into a trap. Little did he know it would cost him his life!My sons, listen to me. Pay attention to what I say.Don’t let your hearts turn to her ways. Don’t step onto her paths.She has brought down a lot of men. She has killed a huge crowd.Her house is a road to the grave. It leads down to the place of the dead.

We should not commit sexual sins, as some of them did. In one day 23,000 of them died.