Proverbs 23:27 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:19-28: Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: "Here, my son, and be wise, Pro 23:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 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.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:27: deep ditch--a narrow pit, out of which it is hard to climb. lieth in wait--to ensnare men into the pit, as hunters entrap game (compare Pro 22:14).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 23:26-28: Pro 23:26-28 This hexastich warns against unchastity. What, in chap. 1-9, extended discourses and representations exhibited to the youth is here repeated in miniature pictures. It is the teacher of wisdom, but by him Wisdom herself, who speaks: 26 Give me, my son, thine heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways. 27 For the harlot is a deep ditch, And the strange woman a narrow pit.