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To deliver thee from thez strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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Prov. 5:20• ²⁰And why shouldest thou, my son,{HR}Be ravished with a strange woman,{HR}And embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:20)

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Prov. 5:3‑20• ³For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,{HR}And her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood,{HR}Sharp as a two-edged sword.
⁵Her feet go down to death;{HR}Her steps take hold on Sheol.
⁶Lest she should ponder the path of life,{HR}Her ways are unstable, she knoweth [it] not.
⁷And now, children, hearken to me,{HR}And depart not from the words of my mouth.
⁸Remove thy way far from her,{HR}And come not nigh the door of her house;
⁹Lest thou give thine honour to others,{HR}And thy years to the cruel;
¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth,{HR}And thy labours [go] to the house of an alien;
¹¹And thou mourn in thine end,{HR}When thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
¹²And thou say, How have I hated instruction,{HR}And my heart despised reproof;
¹³And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,{HR}Nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me!
¹⁴I was well nigh in all evil{HR}In the midst of the congregation and assembly.
¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern,{HR}And running waters out of thine own well.
¹⁶Should thy fountains be dispersed abroad,{HR}And rivers of water in the broadways?
¹⁷Let them be only thine own,{HR}And not for strangers with thee.
¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed;{HR}Rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
¹⁹A lovely hind and a, graceful doe, {sup}{HR}{/sup}Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;{HR}With her love be ravished continually.
²⁰And why shouldest thou, my son,{HR}Be ravished with a strange woman,{HR}And embrace the bosom of a stranger? (Prov. 5:3‑20)

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Prov. 6:24• ²⁴To keep thee from the evil woman,{HR}From the smoothness of the tongue of a strange woman. (Prov. 6:24)

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Prov. 7:5‑23• ⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman,{HR}From the stranger that flattereth with her words.
⁶For at the window of my house I looked forth from my lattice;{HR}And I beheld among the simple ones,
⁷I discerned among the sons,{HR}A young man void of understanding,
⁸Passing through the street near her corner;{HR}And he went the way to her house,
⁹In the twilight, in the evening of the day,{HR}In the blackness of night and the darkness.
¹⁰And, behold, there met him a woman{HR}[In] the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
¹¹She [is] clamorous and ungovernable;{HR}Her feet abide not in her house;
¹²Now [she is] in the streets,{HR}Now in the broadways,{HR}And lieth in wait at every corner.
¹³And she caught him and kissed him;{HR}With an impudent face she said to him,
¹⁴I have peace-offerings;{HR}This day have I paid my vows.
¹⁵Therefore came I forth to meet thee,{HR}Diligently to seek thy face;{HR}And I have found thee.
¹⁶My bed I have decked with tapestry coverings,{HR}With variegated cloths of yarn from Egypt.
¹⁷I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
¹⁸Come, let us revel in love until the morning;{HR}Let us delight ourselves with loves.
¹⁹For the husband [is] not at home{HR}And he is gone a long journey;
²⁰He hath taken the money-bag with him;{HR}He will come home at the day of full moon.
²¹With her much fair speech she beguiled him;{HR}With the flattery of her lips she constrained him.
²²He goeth after suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,{HR}And as in fetters to his correction the fool;
²³Till an arrow strike through his liver,{HR}As a bird hasteth to the snare,{HR}And knoweth not that [it is] for its life. (Prov. 7:5‑23)

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Prov. 22:14• ¹⁴The mouth of strange women [is] a deep ditch;{HR}He with whom Jehovah is indignant shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)

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Prov. 23:27• ²⁷For a whore [is] a deep ditch;{HR}And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit; (Prov. 23:27)

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Gen. 39:3‑12• ³And his master saw that Jehovah [was] with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
⁴And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and served him; and he made him overseer over his house, and all [that] was his he put into his hand.
⁵And it came to pass, from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that was his, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was on all that was his in house and in field.
⁶And he left all that [was] his in Joseph's hand, and took cognizance of nothing with him save the bread which he ate.
⁷And it came to pass after these things that his master's wife raised her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!
⁸But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master takes cognizance of nothing with me: what is in the house, and all that he hath, he hath given to my hand.
⁹None [is] greater in this house than I; nor hath he withheld from me anything but thee, because thou [art] his wife. And how should I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
¹⁰And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, and he hearkened not to her, to lie with her and to be with her,
¹¹and it came to pass about this time that on a certain day that be went into the house to do his business, and none of the men [was] there in the house.
¹²And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me! and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and ran outside. (Gen. 39:3‑12)

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Neh. 13:26‑27• ²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
²⁷And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives? (Neh. 13:26‑27)

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Eccl. 7:26• ²⁶And I find a thing more bitter than death,{HR}Even the woman whose heart [is] snares and nets,{HR}Whose hands [are] bands:{HR}Whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her;{HR}But the sinner shall be taken by her. (Eccl. 7:26)

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Prov. 7:21• ²¹With her much fair speech she beguiled him;{HR}With the flattery of her lips she constrained him. (Prov. 7:21)

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Prov. 29:5• ⁵A man that flattereth his neighbour{HR}Spreadeth a net for his steps. (Prov. 29:5)

• She is the ensnaring enemy of morality and virtue, who today, as in Solomon’s time, pursues her nefarious traffic in the bodies and souls of the young and unwary. Forsaking the guide of her youth, forgetting the covenant of her God, she gives herself up to impure pleasures and soul-destroying lusts. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

• But having considered all this, is there not another meaning also to be taken from these many warnings concerning the strange woman? In a secondary sense it seems evident that as in the evil man we have set forth independency of God-rationalism run riot; so in the strange woman we see false religion as eventually to be headed up in Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations that be upon the face of the earth. How devious are her ways! How subtle and deceptive her solicitations! (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;

W. Kelly Translation

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To deliver thee from the strange woman,{HR}From the stranger who flattereth with her words;