16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
16 So you will be delivered from the forbidden
16 Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress - that smooth-talking Seductress
16 To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,
16 Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
24 keeping you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
24 to preserve you from the evil woman,
24 They'll protect you from wanton women, from the seductive talk of some temptress.
24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
24 It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
(Read Proverbs 6:20-35)
The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly became our Surety, when we were strangers and enemies. And shall Christians, who have such prospects, motives, and examples, be slothful and careless? Shall we neglect what is pleasing to God, and what he will graciously reward? May we closely watch every sense by which poison can enter our minds or affections.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 2:16
Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22
(Read Proverbs 2:10-22)
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 in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares. Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin. Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a very different thing to them. To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall crown believers?