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Proverbs 2:17
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15 aWhose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths; 
16 To deliver you from athe immoral woman,
bFrom the seductress who flatters with her words, 
17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For aher house leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead; 
19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they1 regain the paths of life— 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Proverbs 2:17

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth - Leaves her father' s house and instructions, and abandons herself to the public.

The covenant of her God - Renounces the true religion, and mixes with idolaters; for among them prostitution was enormous. Or by the covenant may be meant the matrimonial contract, which is a covenant made in the presence of God between the contracting parties, in which they bind themselves to be faithful to each other.


 
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