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Proverbs 2:16–17

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16So pyou will be delivered from the forbidden1 woman,

from qthe adulteress2 with rher smooth words,

17who forsakes sthe companion of her youth

and forgets tthe covenant of her God;

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Footnotes

  1. 1Hebrew strange
  2. 2Hebrew foreign woman

Cross references

  1. pch. 7:5
  2. qch. 6:24; 23:27
  3. rch. 6:24; Ps. 5:9
  4. sJer. 3:4; [Ps. 55:13]
  5. t[Mal. 2:14, 15]

In other versions

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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

who abandons the companion of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God;

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.

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,

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.