Proverbs 7:4-5
English Standard Version
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
5 to keep you from (A)the forbidden[a] woman,
from (B)the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew strange
- Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman
Proverbs 7:4-5
Common English Bible
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister”;
call understanding “friend,”
5 so she might guard you against the mysterious woman,
from the foreign woman who flatters you.
Proverbs 7:21
English Standard Version
21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with (A)her smooth talk she compels him.
Proverbs 7:21
Common English Bible
21 She seduces him with all her talk.
She entices him with her flattery.
Proverbs 26:28
English Standard Version
28 A lying tongue hates its victims,
and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Proverbs 26:28
Common English Bible
28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes;
a flattering mouth causes destruction.
Proverbs 28:23
English Standard Version
Proverbs 28:23
Common English Bible
23 Those who correct someone will, in the end, find more favor
than those with flattering tongues.
Proverbs 29:5
English Standard Version
Proverbs 29:5
Common English Bible
5 People who flatter their friends
spread out a net for their feet.
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