3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honeyand her words are[a] smoother than oil,
20 Why, my son, would you be infatuatedwith a forbidden womanor embrace the breast of a stranger?(A)
24 They will protect you from an evil woman,[a]from the flattering[b] tongue of a stranger.(A)
5 She will keep you from a forbidden woman,a stranger with her flattering talk.(A)
21 She seduces him with her persistent pleading;she lures with her flattering[a] talk.
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,(A)and a stranger is a narrow well;
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