But he refused. ‘Look,’ he said to his master’s wife, ‘with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.
Proverbs 6:24 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a loose woman. American Standard Version (1901) To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue. Common English Bible They guard you from the evil woman, from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman. Catholic Public Domain Version So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger. |
But he refused. ‘Look,’ he said to his master’s wife, ‘with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.
It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,
Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman?
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil,
She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.
She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a wayward woman with her flattering talk.
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.