16 So (A)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (B)the adulteress[b] with (C)her smooth words,
17 who forsakes (D)the companion of her youth
    and forgets (E)the covenant of her God;

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  1. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](B)

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  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God