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Proverbs 2:16
16If you have wisdom, you will not listen to the sweet words of a prostitute. A woman who likes to have sex with many men will not deceive you.
Proverbs 2:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- New International Version (NIV)Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
- English Standard Version (ESV)So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
- New King James Version (NKJV)To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,
Context of Proverbs 2:16
14They enjoy doing wicked and evil things. 15They only do wrong things. They are always deceiving others. If you have wisdom, you will not listen to the sweet words of a prostitute. A woman who likes to have sex with many men will not deceive you. 17That kind of woman leaves her own husband. She married him when she was young. Now she forgets what she promised to God at the time of her marriage. 18Do not go into her house! If you do, you will be on the road to death. If you follow her, you will arrive at the home of the spirits of dead people.
Read all of Proverbs 2Proverbs 2:16 word by word
לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה זָרָ֑ה מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ הֶחֱלִֽיקָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 2:16
- Proverbs 5:3Do not listen to the words of an adulteress. She promises something as sweet as honey and as beautiful as olive oil.
- Proverbs 6:24They will keep you safe from any bad woman, so that the sweet words of an adulteress will not deceive you.
- Proverbs 7:5If you do that, it will keep you safe from sin. You will not agree to sleep with an adulteress or a prostitute when she speaks sweet words to you.
- Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep hole. If you make the Lord angry, you will fall into it!
- Proverbs 23:27Prostitutes are a dangerous trap for men. Women who are not faithful to their husbands can cause men to fall into danger, like a deep well.
- Genesis 39:3Potiphar saw that the Lord was with Joseph. He saw that the Lord helped Joseph to do good work.
- Nehemiah 13:26Solomon, king of Israel, did a bad thing when he married foreign women. There was no other king as great as him in any other nation. God loved him. God chose him to be king over all Israel. But Solomon's foreign wives caused him to do bad things, even though he was so great.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26I learned this: Some women are like a trap that catches animals. Women like that are more dangerous than death. They may pretend to love you. They may hold you in their arms. But really their arms are like chains. They want to catch you, as hunters catch animals. Women like that will easily catch a man who has turned away from God. But a man who pleases God will escape from them.
- Proverbs 7:21With those sweet words she deceived the young man. She made him want to be with her.
- Proverbs 29:5If you always praise your friends with sweet words, that will be a trap that you walk into yourself.
Commentaries on Proverbs 2:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16The stranger which flattereth with her words - החליקה hechelikah, she that smooths with her words. The original intimates the glib, oily speeches of a prostitute. The English lick is supposed to be derived from the original word.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16The second great evil, the warnings against which are frequent (see the marginal reference). Two words are used to describe the class. (1) “The strange woman” is one who does not belong to the family, one who by birth is outside the covenant of Israel. (2) “The stranger” is none other than a foreigner. It is the word used of the “strange” wives of Solomon 1 Kings 11:1, 1 Kings 11:8, and of those of the Jews who returned from Babylon (Proverbs 2:17; but…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-22Verses 10-22 If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16Wisdom helps a young man avoid an immoral woman, enabling him to resist her flattering and seductive words. Wisdom involves emotional maturity, self-control, and understanding the intent behind someone's words.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1916-19. Deliverance from another danger. the strange woman--This term is often used for harlot, or loose woman (Jud 11:1, 2), married (Pr 7:5, 19) or not (1Ki 11:1), so called, because such were, perhaps at first, foreigners, though "strange" may also denote whatever is opposed to right or proper, as "strange fire" (Nu 3:4); "strange incense" (Ex 30:9). flattereth--literally, "smooths." her words--(Psa 5:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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