Proverbs 2:16
14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- KJV
- To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- WEB
- to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
- ASV
- To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
- DARBY
- To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
- BLB
- It will deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman having made smooth her words,
- ÅB
- Visdommen skal fri deg fra annen manns hustru, fra fremmed kvinne, som taler glatte ord,
- OTB
- For å redde deg fra den utro kvinnen, fra den fremmede kvinnen som smigrer med sine ord,
- B1930
- Visdommen skal fri dig fra annen manns hustru, fra fremmed kvinne, som taler glatte ord,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Read in contextProverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
Read in contextProverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Read in contextProverbs 7:5–23
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Read in contextProverbs 23:27
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Read in contextNehemiah 13:26–27
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
Read in contextGenesis 39:3–12
When his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,
Read in contextProverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
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