Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionTo deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GWisdom will deliver you too from the foreign woman, from the outsider who flatters with her words—
F.O.G.M
F.O.G MessageIt will also save you from the forbidden woman, from the seductive stranger who flatters with smooth speech—
BSB
Berean Standard BibleIt will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Footnotes
Hebrew uses two distinct terms: *ishah zarah* ('strange/foreign woman') and *nokriyah* ('outsider, foreigner'). Scholarly debate continues over whether these designate a literal foreign woman (perhaps an adulteress or cult-associated figure of non-Israelite origin), Lady Folly as the literary foil to Lady Wisdom (Prov. 8–9), or both simultaneously. The covenant language of v. 17 — 'forgets the covenant of her God' — suggests the woman has defected from Israelite covenant life, making her 'strangeness' moral and covenantal as much as ethnic. FOG preserves 'foreign' and 'outsider' to keep the social-boundary resonance; FOG Message uses 'forbidden' and 'stranger' to foreground the moral danger.
