Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your nearest kin,
(A)That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words.

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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”(A)
and call understanding your relative.
She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a wayward woman with her flattering talk.(B)

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21 [a]With (A)her enticing speech she caused him to yield,
(B)With her flattering lips she [b]seduced him.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:21 By the greatness of her words
  2. Proverbs 7:21 compelled

21 She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

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28 A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it,
And a flattering mouth works (A)ruin.

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28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

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23 (A)He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

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23 One who rebukes a person will later find more favor(A)
than one who flatters with his tongue.(B)

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A man who (A)flatters his neighbor
Spreads a net for his feet.

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A person who flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet.(A)

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