17 Let them be yours alone,
    never to be shared with strangers.

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17 May they be yours alone,
    and not for strangers who are with you.

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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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24 in order to preserve you from an evil woman,[a]
    from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Or “wife”
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Literally “a foreign woman”