Proverbs 23:28 (BSB)

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:28

• 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 23:28: She also lieth in wait as for a prey,.... At the door of her house, in the corner of the streets, in the dark of the night; laying her snares, and spreading her nets, for unwary persons, to make a prey of their virtue and of their money.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:28: increaseth . . . transgressors-- (Pro 5:8-10). The vice alluded to is peculiarly hardening to the heart.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:28: She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. (m) She seduces many and causes them to offend God.