Proverbs 2:19

No man who ◄visits/sleeps with► a woman like that will again live harmoniously with his family. He will never have a happy life again.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

In Context

18If you go into houses of women who are like that, you will die when you are still young; the road to their houses leads to hell.

20If you are wise, you should behave like good men behave. You should ◄stay on the paths that righteous people walk on/do what godly people do► [MET],

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Cross References

Proverbs 4:18The behavior of good/righteous people is like the light that begins to shine at dawn and then continues to shine brighter until the brightest time of day.

Proverbs 6:32But a man who commits adultery with some woman is very foolish, because he is destroying his own self/soul by what he is doing.

Jeremiah 13:23A man from Ethiopia certainly cannot [RHQ] change the color of his black skin, and a leopard certainly cannot [RHQ] change its spots. Similarly, you cannot start doing what is good, because you have always done what is evil.

Matthew 19:24Note this also: It is impossible for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. It is almost as difficult [HYP] for rich people to decide to let God rule their lives.”

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 →

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