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Proverbs 2:16–19

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16It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,p

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,q

17who abandons the companion of her youthr

and forgets the covenant of her God;

18for her house sinks down to death

and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.s

19None return who go to her;

none reach the paths of life.t

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Cross references

  1. pPr 9:13–18
  2. qPr 5:3,20; 6:24; 7:5,21; 23:27
  3. rMal 2:14–15
  4. sPr 7:27; 9:18; 21:16
  5. tPs 16:11; Pr 5:6; 7:5,21–27; 23:27–28; Ec 7:26

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,

from the adulteress with her smooth words,

who forsakes the companion of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God;

for her house sinks down to death,

and her paths to the departed;

none who go to her come back,

nor do they regain the paths of life.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,

from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

who has left the partner of her youth

and ignored the covenant she made before God.

Surely her house leads down to death

and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

None who go to her return

or attain the paths of life.

NLTNew Living Translation

Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman,

from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.

She has abandoned her husband

and ignores the covenant she made before God.

Entering her house leads to death;

it is the road to the grave.

The man who visits her is doomed.

He will never reach the paths of life.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

in order to deliver you from a strange woman,

from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings,

she who forsakes the partner of her youth

and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

for her house sinks to death,

and to the dead are her paths.

Of all who go to her, none shall return,

nor do they reach paths of life.

KJV 1900King James Version

To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,

And forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For her house inclineth unto death,

And her paths unto the dead.

None that go unto her return again,

Neither take they hold of the paths of life.