Proverbios 23:27

27 Porque fosa profunda es la ramera, y pozo angosto es la mujer desconocida.

Proverbios 23:27 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 23:27

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 her insatiable lust, as well as for her being never satisfied with what she receives from her lovers. Plautus compares ^F7 her to the sea, which devours whatever you give, and yet nothing appears; and another ^F8 calls a whore Charybdis, from her swallowing up and devouring all a man has. She is as a ditch that has no bottom, into which those that fall are ever sinking deeper and deeper, till they get into the bottomless pit; for there is seldom any recovery from this dreadful evil; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit;
or "well" ^F9; into which when men fall, they bruise themselves in a terrible manner, by beating from side to side; and out of which they cannot extricate themselves; at least not easily, but with great difficulty, if ever. This may very well be applied to the whore of Rome, and the filthiness of her fornications; and the dreadful state of those who are drawn in to commit fornication with her.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Truculaetus, Act. 2. Sc. 7. v. 16, 17. "Lucuculetum coenum", Bacchides, Act. 3. Sc. 1. v. 11. "Lutea meretrix", Trucul. Act. 4. Sc. 4. v. 1l.
F8 Sydonius Apollinar. l. 9. Ep. 6.
F9 (rab) "putens", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.

Proverbios 23:27 In-Context

25 Alégrense tu padre y tu madre, y regocíjese la que te dio a luz.

26 Dame, hijo mío, tu corazón, y que tus ojos se deleiten en mis caminos.

27 Porque fosa profunda es la ramera, y pozo angosto es la mujer desconocida.

28 Ciertamente como ladrón acecha, y multiplica los infieles entre los hombres.

29 ¿De quién son los ayes? ¿De quién las tristezas? ¿De quién las contiendas? ¿De quién las quejas? ¿De quién las heridas sin causa? ¿De quién los ojos enrojecidos?