Proverbs 7:21
Modern Translations
New International Version
With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk.

New Living Translation
So she seduced him with her pretty speech and enticed him with her flattery.

English Standard Version
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

Berean Study Bible
With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

New American Standard Bible
With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.

NASB 1995
With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.

NASB 1977
With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.

Amplified Bible
With her many persuasions she caused him to yield; With her flattering lips she seduced him.

Christian Standard Bible
She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.

Contemporary English Version
And so, she tricked him with all of her sweet talk and her flattery.

Good News Translation
So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
With all her seductive charms, she persuades him. With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.

International Standard Version
She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.

NET Bible
She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

New King James Version
With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, With her flattering lips she seduced him.

King James 2000 Bible
With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.

New Heart English Bible
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

World English Bible
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

American King James Version
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

American Standard Version
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

A Faithful Version
With much alluring, seductive speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she induced him.

Darby Bible Translation
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

English Revised Version
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.

Webster's Bible Translation
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, "" She forces him with the flattery of her lips.

Young's Literal Translation
She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

Smith's Literal Translation
With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.

Catholic Public Domain Version
She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And she deceived him with the multitude of her words; in the flattery of her lips unto him, she enticed him.

Lamsa Bible
With much fair speech she misled him, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, With the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path.
















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