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15 What they do is wrong.
    Their ways are dishonest.

16 It will save you from the unfaithful wife
    who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
17 Such women leave the husbands they married when they were young.
    They forget the promise they made before God.

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15 whose paths are crooked(A)
    and who are devious in their ways.(B)

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(C)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God