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

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17 They are yours alone,
    not for you as well as strangers.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 LXX reads from a married woman
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Lit smooth

24 They guard you from the evil woman,
    from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.

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