Proverbs 2:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,^(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
¹⁷who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.^[a]^(B)
¹⁸Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.^(C)

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Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God

Proverbs 2:16-18

English Standard Version

¹⁶So ^(A)you will be delivered from the forbidden^[a] woman,
    from ^(B)the adulteress^[b] with ^(C)her smooth words,
¹⁷who forsakes ^(D)the companion of her youth
    and forgets ^(E)the covenant of her God;
¹⁸^(F)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;^[c]

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Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim

Proverbs 2:16-18

New King James Version

¹⁶To deliver you from ^(A)the immoral woman,
^(B)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
¹⁷Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
¹⁸For ^(C)her house ^[a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;