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16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant,
18 for her way[c] leads down to death
    and her paths to the shades;(B)
19 those who go to her never come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman
  3. 2.18 Cn: Heb house

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”