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16 delivering you from the adulteress,
    from the immoral[a] woman with her seductive words,
17 someone who abandoned the companion of her youth
        and forgot the covenant of her God.
18 For her house leads down to death,
    and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
19 None who go to her return,
nor do they reach the paths of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Lit. foreign; i.e. one whose values are foreign to God’s Law

16 in order to deliver you from a strange woman,
    from a foreign woman who flatters[a] with her sayings,
17 she who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
18 for her house sinks to death,
    and to the dead[b] are her paths.
19 Of all who go to her, none shall return,
    nor do they reach paths of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Or “makes smooth”
  2. Proverbs 2:18 Or “Rephaim”