16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    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](B)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(C)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)
but in the end she is bitter as gall,(B)
    sharp as a double-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death;
    her steps lead straight to the grave.(C)

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23     till an arrow pierces(A) his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
    little knowing it will cost him his life.(B)

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14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(A)
    a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(B)

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