Proverbs 2:17
and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
In Context
16So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
Ezekiel 16:8And I passed by you and saw you. And behold, your time was the time of lovers. And I spread my garment over you, and I covered your disgrace. And I swore to you, and I entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.
Malachi 2:14And you have said, “What is the reason for this?” It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22
The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →