14 The mouth of (A)forbidden[a] women is (B)a deep pit;
    (C)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
    but (D)the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth,
    or gives to the rich, (E)will only come to poverty.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:14 Hebrew strange

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