23 For the commandment is (A)a lamp and the teaching a light,
    and the (B)reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of (C)the adulteress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman

23 For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,(B)
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(C)

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