But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “my master doesn’t think about anything in the house with me in charge, and everything that belongs to him he’s entrusted into my hand.
Proverbs 6:24 - Tree of Life Version keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue. 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. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “my master doesn’t think about anything in the house with me in charge, and everything that belongs to him he’s entrusted into my hand.
to deliver you from a seducing woman— a wayward wife with seductive words,
Why, my son, be captivated by a seducing woman? Why embrace a foreigner’s bosom?
For a seducing woman’s lips drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil.
With her persistent pleading she entices him, with smooth talk she seduces him.
They will keep you from a seducing woman, from the foreign woman with her seductive speech.
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.