Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are[a] smoother than oil,

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Footnotes

  1. 5:3 Lit her palate is

20 Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?(A)

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24 They will protect you from an evil woman,[a]
from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:24 LXX reads from a married woman

She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a wayward woman with her flattering talk.(A)

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21 She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,(A)
and a wayward woman is a narrow well;

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