But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Proverbs 6:24 - English Standard Version 2016 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.