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Proverbs 2:16

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16To deliver you from the 1astrange woman,

From the 2bforeign woman who flatters with her words;

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Footnotes

  1. 1A forbidden woman, outside of the marriage covenant; an adulteress; parallel with foreign woman; so in Prov
  2. 2An unfamiliar woman, alien to the marriage covenant; parallel with strange woman

Cross references

  1. aProv 5:3, 20; 7:5; 22:14
  2. bProv 5:20; 6:24; 7:5; 23:27; 27:13

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,

from the adulteress with her smooth words,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,

from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

NLTNew Living Translation

Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman,

from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

in order to deliver you from a strange woman,

from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings,

KJV 1900King James Version

To deliver thee from the strange woman,

Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;