Proverbs 2:16 {17}
Good News Translation
You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,

New Revised Standard Version
You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman,

New American Bible
Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

deliver

Proverbs 5:3-20 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. . . .

Proverbs 6:24 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

Proverbs 7:5-23 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice, . . .

Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

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

Genesis 39:3-12 Who knew very well that the Lord was with him, and made all that he did to prosper in his hand. . . .

Nehemiah 13:26,27 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin. . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

flattereth

Proverbs 7:21 Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,

Proverbs 29:5 A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
15That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words; 16And forsaketh the guide of her youth,17And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:3
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:20
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

Proverbs 6:24
Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

Proverbs 7:5
For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,

Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.

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

Proverbs 2:15
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