14 from those who enjoy doing evil(A)
and celebrate perversion,
15 whose paths are crooked,(B)
and whose ways are devious.(C)
16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,(D)
from a stranger[a] with her flattering talk,(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:16 Or foreign woman

14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(A)
15 whose paths are crooked(B)
    and who are devious in their ways.(C)

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(D)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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