Proverbs 2:17
15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
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.
19 None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
- KJV
- Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
- WEB
- who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
- ASV
- That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
- DARBY
- who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
- BLB
- the one having forsaken the guide of her youth, and she has forgotten the covenant of her God.
- ÅB
- som har forlatt sin ungdoms venn og glemt sin Guds pakt;
- OTB
- Som forlater sin ungdoms partner og glemmer sin Guds pakt.
- B1930
- som har forlatt sin ungdoms venn og glemt sin Guds pakt;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 16:59–60
For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:4
Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:8
Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.
Read in contextMalachi 2:14–16
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Read in contextProverbs 5:18
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
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