The mouth of a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.
Proverbs 2:16 - Tree of Life Version to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.
A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.
keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.
But she wept before him the seven days while their banquet lasted. So it was on the seventh day he told her, because she nagged him. Then she told the riddle to the sons of her people.