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Proverbs 2:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Proverbs 2:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 Who delight in doing evil
and celebrate perversity;
15 Whose ways are crooked,
whose paths are devious;
16 [a]Saving you from a stranger,
from a foreign woman with her smooth words,(A)
Footnotes
- 2:16–19 A second obstacle and counter-figure to Wisdom, personified as an attractive woman, is the “stranger,” or “foreigner,” from outside the territory or kinship group, hence inappropriate as a marriage partner. In Proverbs she comes to be identified with Woman Folly, whose deceitful words promise life but lead to death. Woman Folly appears also in chap. 5, 6:20–35, chap. 7 and 9:13–18. Covenant: refers to the vow uttered with divine sanction at the woman’s previous marriage, as the parallel verse suggests. She is already married and relations with her would be adulterous.
Proverbs 2:14-16
New International Version
Proverbs 2:14-16
New International Version
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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