Proverbs 2:16 - Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

Proverbs 2:16 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:27

For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well.

Proverbs 26:28

A false tongue does not love truth. And a slippery mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who speaks to his friend with flattering and feigned words spreads a net for his own feet.

Proverbs 6:24

So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I have examined all things in my soul, so that I may know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason, and so that I may recognize the impiety of the foolish, and the error of the imprudent.

Judges 14:17

Therefore, she wept before him during the seven days of the feast. And at length, on the seventh day, since she had been troubling him, he explained it. And immediately she revealed it to her countrymen.