Proverbs 5:17

English Standard Version

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

Proverbs 5:17

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁷They should be for you alone
and not for you to share with strangers.

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

²⁴They will protect you from an evil woman,^[a]
from the flattering^[b] tongue of a stranger.^(A)

English Standard Version (ESV)

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)