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16 to deliver you from the immoral woman,
    even from the seductress who flatters with her words,
17 who forsakes the guide of her youth,
    and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For her house leads down to death,
    and her paths to the departed spirits;
19 none who go to her return again,
    nor do they take hold of the paths of life.

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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”