Proverbs 5:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone
and not for sharing with strangers.

Proverbs 5:17

English Standard Version

¹⁷^(A)Let them be for yourself alone,
and not for strangers with you.

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

²⁴to preserve you from the evil woman,^[a]
from the smooth tongue of ^(A)the adulteress.^[b]

Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman

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