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24 to preserve you from the wife of another,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[b](A)

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  1. 6.24 Gk: MT the evil woman
  2. 6.24 Heb alien woman

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

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16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)

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  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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that they may keep you from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.(A)

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  1. 7.5 Heb strange woman
  2. 7.5 Heb alien woman

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

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For the lips of a loose woman[a] drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil,(A)

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  1. 5.3 Heb strange woman

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)

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26 I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.(A)

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26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,(A)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.(B)

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