Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, New Living Translation Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman. English Standard Version So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, Berean Standard Bible It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words King James Bible To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; New King James Version To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words, New American Standard Bible To rescue you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words, NASB 1995 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; NASB 1977 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words; Legacy Standard Bible To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words; Amplified Bible To keep you from the immoral woman; From the seductress with her flattering words, Christian Standard Bible It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk, Holman Christian Standard Bible It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her flattering talk, American Standard Version To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; Contemporary English Version Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman, English Revised Version To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; GOD'S WORD® Translation [Wisdom will] also save you from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk, Good News Translation You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk, International Standard Version delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words, Majority Standard Bible It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words NET Bible to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words; New Heart English Bible To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; Webster's Bible Translation To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flattereth with her words; World English Bible to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionTo deliver you from the strange woman, "" From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth, Young's Literal Translation To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, Smith's Literal Translation To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThat thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words: Catholic Public Domain Version So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech, New American Bible Saving you from a stranger, from a foreign woman with her smooth words, New Revised Standard Version You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleWisdom shall deliver you from a strange woman who flatters with her words, Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Wisdom will deliver you from an estranged woman who subverts by her words OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words; Brenton Septuagint Translation to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Benefits of Wisdom…15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious. 16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words 17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.… Cross References Proverbs 5:3-6 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, / in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. / Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. ... Proverbs 6:24-29 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. / Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. / For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. ... Proverbs 7:5-27 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words. / For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. / I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, ... Proverbs 9:13-18 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. / She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. ... Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Jeremiah 3:6-10 Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. / I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. / She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. ... Malachi 2:14-16 Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. / Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. / “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith. Genesis 39:7-12 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” / But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. / No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” ... Judges 16:4-21 Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. / The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.” / So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.” ... 2 Samuel 11:2-5 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. / So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” / Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home. ... Matthew 5:27-28 You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 19:9 Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.” Mark 7:21-23 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.” Luke 16:18 Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. John 8:3-11 The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them / and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. / In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such a woman. So what do You say?” ... Treasury of Scripture To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words; deliver Proverbs 5:3-20 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: … Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Proverbs 7:5-23 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words… flattereth Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. Proverbs 29:5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. Jump to Previous Adulteress Adventuress Alien Deliver Flattereth Flatters Foreigner Loose Maketh Power Save Saved Sayings Seductive Smooth Strange Stranger Tongue Wayward Wife WordsJump to Next Adulteress Adventuress Alien Deliver Flattereth Flatters Foreigner Loose Maketh Power Save Saved Sayings Seductive Smooth Strange Stranger Tongue Wayward Wife WordsProverbs 2 1. wisdom promises godliness to her children10. and safety from evil company 20. and direction in good ways to deliver you The phrase "to deliver you" suggests a rescue or salvation from impending danger. In the Hebrew context, the word used here is "נָצַל" (natsal), which means to snatch away, rescue, or save. This implies an active intervention by wisdom to protect the individual from moral and spiritual peril. The concept of deliverance is central to the biblical narrative, often associated with God's saving acts throughout history, such as the Exodus. In this verse, wisdom is personified as a divine agent of deliverance, emphasizing the protective power of godly wisdom in the believer's life. from the strange woman from the foreigner who flatters with her words (16-19) Besides the literal sense of this passage, as given above, commentators have very generally found in it a spiritual meaning, a warning against idolatry and apostasy. The union of Israel to God is so frequently spoken of in the prophets under the figure of a marriage, and their rejection of Him for idols as adultery, that the passage may well bear this further sense, especially as Jeremiah (Jeremiah 3:4) has borrowed this very phrase, "guide of her youth," for a passage in which he is reproving the Jews for their faithlessness. The figure is also very common in the New Testament, as descriptive of the union of Christ and the Church. Verse 16. - To deliver thee from the strange woman. This is the second form of temptation against which wisdom (discretion) is a preservative, and the great and especial dangers arising from it to youth, owing to its seductive allurements, afford the reason why the teacher is so strong in his warnings on this subject. Two terms are employed to designate the source of this evil - "the strange woman" (אִָשה זָרָה, ishshah zara), and "the stranger" (נָכְרִיָה, nok'riyah) - and both undoubtedly, in the passage before us, mean a meretricious person, one who indulges in illicit intercourse. The former term is invariably employed in this sense in the Proverbs (Proverbs 5:2, 20; Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 22:14; Proverbs 23:33) of the adulteress (זָרִים, zarim), and Jeremiah 2:25. The participle זָר (zar), from the verb זוּר (zur), of which זָרָה (zarah) is the feminine form, is, however, used in a wider sense, as signifying(1) one of another nation, or one of another family; (2) or some one different from one's self; (3) or strange. . . . Hebrew It will rescue youלְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ (lə·haṣ·ṣî·lə·ḵā) Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver from the forbidden זָרָ֑ה (zā·rāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery woman, מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה (mê·’iš·šāh) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female from the stranger מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה (min·nā·ḵə·rî·yāh) Preposition-m | Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 5237: Foreign, alien with seductive הֶחֱלִֽיקָה׃ (he·ḥĕ·lî·qāh) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate words, אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ (’ă·mā·re·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 561: Something said Links Proverbs 2:16 NIVProverbs 2:16 NLT Proverbs 2:16 ESV Proverbs 2:16 NASB Proverbs 2:16 KJV Proverbs 2:16 BibleApps.com Proverbs 2:16 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 2:16 Chinese Bible Proverbs 2:16 French Bible Proverbs 2:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman (Prov. 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