The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs 2:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.] American Standard Version (1901) To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; Common English Bible Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman with her slick words. Catholic Public Domain Version So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: |
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the stranger's tongue.
And I find a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.