Proverbs 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [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)

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman with her slick words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

Proverbs 2:16 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Proverbs 23:27

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 29:5

Whoever flatters a neighbor is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

Judges 14:17

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and because she nagged him, on the seventh day he told her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.