To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her 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;
- BSB It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive 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 7:26I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
- Prov 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
- Prov 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
- Prov 7:5–23that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
- Prov 6:24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
- Neh 13:26–27Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
- Gen 39:3–12His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.
- Prov 5:3–20For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
- Prov 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
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