Proverbs 2:15 {16}
Good News Translation
unreliable people who cannot be trusted.

New Revised Standard Version
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

Contemporary English Version
They are dishonest themselves, and so are all their deeds.

New American Bible
Whose ways are crooked, whose paths are devious;

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

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That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;

Deuteronomy 32:5 They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Psalm 125:5 But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Isaiah 30:8-13 Now therefore go in and write for them upon box, and note it diligently in a book, and it shall be in the latter days for a testimony for ever. . . .

Isaiah 59:8 They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
14Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous. 15That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;16And forsaketh the guide of her youth,…
Cross References
Psalm 125:5
But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.

Proverbs 8:8
They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.

Proverbs 14:2
He that walketh in the right way, and feareth God, is despised by him that goeth by an infamous way.

Proverbs 21:8
The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 2:14
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