Proverbs 2:16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

English Standard Version
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

New American Standard Bible
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

King James Bible
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk,

International Standard Version
delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,

American Standard Version
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:

Darby Bible Translation
To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;

Young's Literal Translation
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Cross References

Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Proverbs 5:20
And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 6:24
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.

Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Proverbs 23:27
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

2:10-22 If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares. Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin. Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a very different thing to them. To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall crown believers?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16-19. Deliverance from another danger.

the strange woman—This term is often used for harlot, or loose woman (Jud 11:1, 2), married (Pr 7:5, 19) or not (1Ki 11:1), so called, because such were, perhaps at first, foreigners, though "strange" may also denote whatever is opposed to right or proper, as "strange fire" (Nu 3:4); "strange incense" (Ex 30:9).

flattereth—literally, "smooths."

her words—(Ps 5:9).