16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. …
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2. What good use we should make of the wisdom God gives us; we must use it for our own guidance in the paths of virtue, and for the arming of us again…
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