20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by (A)an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

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20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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(A)That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words.

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They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words.(A)

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24 (A)To keep you from the evil woman,
From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

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24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)

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33 Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things.

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33 Your eyes will see strange sights,
    and your mind will imagine confusing things.

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27 (A)For a harlot is a deep pit,
And a seductress is a narrow well.
28 (B)She also lies in wait as for a victim,
And increases the unfaithful among men.

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27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,(A)
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 Like a bandit she lies in wait(B)
    and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

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14 (A)The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit;
(B)He who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.

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14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(A)
    a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(B)

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Solomon’s Heart Turns from the Lord

11 But (A)King Solomon loved (B)many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—

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Solomon’s Wives

11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women(A) besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites,(B) Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.

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16 To deliver you from (A)the immoral woman,
(B)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For (C)her house [a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they [b]regain the paths of life—

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:18 sinks
  2. Proverbs 2:19 Lit. reach

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