Proverbs 2:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Footnotes
- 2:16–19 A second obstacle and counter-figure to Wisdom, personified as an attractive woman, is the “stranger,” or “foreigner,” from outside the territory or kinship group, hence inappropriate as a marriage partner. In Proverbs she comes to be identified with Woman Folly, whose deceitful words promise life but lead to death. Woman Folly appears also in chap. 5, 6:20–35, chap. 7 and 9:13–18. Covenant: refers to the vow uttered with divine sanction at the woman’s previous marriage, as the parallel verse suggests. She is already married and relations with her would be adulterous.
Proverbs 2:16
New International Version
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
Proverbs 2:16
King James Version
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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Proverbs 6:24
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 Keeping you from another’s wife,
from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.(A)
Proverbs 6:24
New International Version
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)
Proverbs 6:24
King James Version
24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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