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Proverbs 2:16

Wisdom will save you from that other woman, another man's wife, who tempts you with sweet words.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Chastity;   Company;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Lasciviousness;   Righteousness;   Temptation;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Straying;   Understanding;   Whoredom;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Chastity;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Adventuress;   Harlot;   Prostitution;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Stranger;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Strange Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aliens;   Didache;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,
Hebrew Names Version
To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
King James Version
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
English Standard Version
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
New Century Version
It will save you from the unfaithful wife who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
New English Translation
to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
Amplified Bible
To keep you from the immoral woman; From the seductress with her flattering words,
New American Standard Bible
To rescue you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words,
World English Bible
To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.
Legacy Standard Bible
To deliver you from the strange woman,From the foreign woman who flatters with her words;
Berean Standard Bible
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words,
Contemporary English Version
Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman,
Complete Jewish Bible
They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,
Darby Translation
To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
George Lamsa Translation
Wisdom shall deliver you from a strange woman who flatters with her words,
Good News Translation
You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,
Lexham English Bible
in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings,
Literal Translation
these will deliver you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne: which geueth swete wordes,
American Standard Version
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Bible in Basic English
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;
King James Version (1611)
To deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her words:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That thou mayest be deliuered also from the straunge woman, and from her that is not thine owne, which geueth sweete wordes,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee,
English Revised Version
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That thou be delyuered fro an alien womman, and fro a straunge womman, that makith soft hir wordis;
Update Bible Version
To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flatters with her words;
Webster's Bible Translation
To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [who] flattereth with her words;
New King James Version
To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,
New Living Translation
Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
New Life Bible
You will be saved from the strange woman, from the sinful woman with her smooth words.
New Revised Standard
You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;
Revised Standard Version
You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
Young's Literal Translation
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
THE MESSAGE
Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress— that smooth-talking Seductress Who's faithless to the husband she married years ago, never gave a second thought to her promises before God. Her whole way of life is doomed; every step she takes brings her closer to hell. No one who joins her company ever comes back, ever sets foot on the path to real living.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Contextual Overview

10 You will gain wisdom, and knowledge will bring you joy. 11 Planning ahead will protect you, and understanding will guard you. 12 These will keep you from following the wrong path and will protect you from those who have evil plans. 13 Such people have left the straight path and now walk in darkness. 14 They enjoy doing evil and are happy with the confusion it brings. 15 Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat. 16 Wisdom will save you from that other woman, another man's wife, who tempts you with sweet words. 17 She married when she was young, but then she left her husband. She forgot the marriage vows she made before God. 18 Going into her house leads to death. She will lead you to the grave. 19 All who enter lose their life and never return.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

deliver: Proverbs 5:3-20, Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 7:5-23, Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 23:27, Genesis 39:3-12, Nehemiah 13:26, Nehemiah 13:27, Ecclesiastes 7:26

flattereth: Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 29:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:7 - Lie Genesis 39:8 - refused Genesis 39:10 - as she spake Leviticus 15:20 - General Numbers 5:12 - General Deuteronomy 23:17 - There shall be Judges 11:2 - a strange Judges 14:17 - and she told Judges 16:5 - Entice Judges 16:15 - How canst 1 Kings 11:1 - loved Ezra 10:44 - strange wives Job 31:9 - If mine Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 20:16 - a strange Proverbs 23:28 - as for a prey 1 Corinthians 6:18 - Flee

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.
Genesis 2:2
God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work.
Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel answered, "Which pleases the Lord more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obeying his commands? It is better to obey the Lord than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to him than to offer the fat from rams.
1 Timothy 4:4
Everything that God made is good. Nothing he made should be refused if it is accepted with thanks to him.
1 Timothy 6:17
Give this command to those who are rich with the things of this world. Tell them not to be proud. Tell them to hope in God, not their money. Money cannot be trusted, but God takes care of us richly. He gives us everything to enjoy.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To deliver thee from the strange woman,.... As the Gospel of Christ and its doctrines, or the instructions of wisdom, are a means of delivering persons from the evil man, his company, ways, and works; so from a naughty woman, an adulteress, called a "strange" woman; not because of another nation, or unknown, but because she belongs to another person, and not to him whom she entices into her embraces. Gersom interprets this of the sensitive appetite, and Jarchi of idolatry; as others do also of superstition and all false doctrine, and everything that is contrary to true wisdom; and the whole that is here and afterwards said may well enough be applied to the whore of Rome, from whose fornication, or spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry, will worship, and antichristian doctrines, the Gospel delivers men; see Proverbs 7:5, c.

[even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words that useth smooth and soft words to work upon the passions, move the affections, and win the hearts of men; and ensnare them and draw them to commit wickedness with her; see Proverbs 5:3; and so antichrist, and all false teachers and heretics, with good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple, Romans 16:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The second great evil, the warnings against which are frequent (see the marginal reference). Two words are used to describe the class.

(1) “The strange woman” is one who does not belong to the family, one who by birth is outside the covenant of Israel.

(2) “The stranger” is none other than a foreigner.

It is the word used of the “strange” wives of Solomon 1Ki 11:1, 1 Kings 11:8, and of those of the Jews who returned from Babylon (Ezra 10:0; passim). The two words together, in connection with those which follow, and which imply at once marriage and a profession of religious faith, point to some interesting facts in the social history of Israel. Whatever form the sin here referred to had assumed before the monarchy (and the Book of Judges testifies to its frequency), the contact with Phoenicians and other nations under Solomon had a strong tendency to increase it. The king’s example would naturally be followed, and it probably became a fashion to have foreign wives and concubines. At first, it would seem, this was accompanied by some show of proselytism Proverbs 2:17; but the old pagan leaven (influence) presently broke out; the sensual worship of other gods led the way to a life of harlotry. The stringent laws of the Mosaic code Leviticus 19:29; Leviticus 21:9; Deuteronomy 23:18 probably deterred the women of Israel from that sin, and led to a higher standard of purity among them than prevailed among other nations.

Most interpreters have, however, generalized the words as speaking of any adulteress. The Septuagint as if reluctant to speak of facts so shameful, has allegorized them, and seen in the temptress the personification of “evil counsel.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 2:16. The stranger which flattereth with her words — החליקה hechelikah, she that smooths with her words. The original intimates the glib, oily speeches of a prostitute. The English lick is supposed to be derived from the original word.


 
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