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Proverbs 7:20-22
English Standard Version Anglicised
Proverbs 7:20-22
English Standard Version Anglicised
20 he took a bag of money with him;
at full moon he will come home.”
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with (A)her smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as an anklet for the discipline of a fool
Proverbs 7:20-22
New International Version
Proverbs 7:20-22
New International Version
20 He took his purse filled with money
and will not be home till full moon.”
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
- Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
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