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20 So why should you, my son, be intoxicated with a (A)strange woman
And embrace the bosom of a (B)foreign woman?

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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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24 To (A)keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

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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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In order to keep you from the strange woman,
From the foreign woman who [a]flatters with her words.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:5 Lit is smooth

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

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27 For a harlot is a (A)deep pit
And [a]a (B)foreign woman is a narrow well.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:27 Or an adulterous, cf. Prov 2:16

27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,(A)
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

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13 (A)Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger;
And for [a]a foreign woman seize it as a pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:13 Or an adulterous, cf. 2:16

13 Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;
    hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.(A)

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