It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Parallel translations
- WEB To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
- KJV To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- NKJV To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,
- NASB To rescue you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words,
- NLT Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
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Quick answer
Wisdom also delivers you from the seductive, flattering adulteress. It matters because it warns against sexual temptation as a deadly snare.
Overview
The second deliverance is from the 'strange woman,' a recurring figure for illicit sexual temptation in Proverbs. Her flattering words mask spiritual and physical danger. The warning reflects God's design for faithful marriage and ultimately for covenant faithfulness to Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Eccl 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- Prov 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
- Prov 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- Prov 7:5–23that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
- Prov 6:24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
- Neh 13:26–27Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
- Gen 39:3–12When his master saw that the LORD was with him and made him prosper in all he did,
- Prov 5:3–20Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Prov 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
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