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)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(C)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God

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”