Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.

New American Standard Bible

With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.

King James Version

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Holman Bible

She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

International Standard Version

She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.

American Standard Version

With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

Amplified


With her many persuasions she caused him to yield;
With her flattering lips she seduced him.

Bible in Basic English

With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

Darby Translation

With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

Julia Smith Translation

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

King James 2000

With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.

Modern King James verseion

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him

NET Bible

She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.

New Heart English Bible

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

The Emphasized Bible

She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness, - with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him:

Webster

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.

World English Bible

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Youngs Literal Translation

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Leqach 
Usage: 9

with the flattering
חלק 
Cheleq 
Usage: 67

of her lips
שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

נדח 
Nadach 
Usage: 53

References

Fausets

Context Readings

A Story Of Seduction

20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon. 21 With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along. 22 He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

Cross References

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

Judges 16:15-17

And she said to him, How can thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou have mocked me these three times, and have not told me with what thy great strength lays.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him, and he hearkened to their voice. So he arose from the ground, and sat upon the bed.

2 Kings 4:8

And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shunem where there was a prominent woman. And she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by he turned in there to eat bread.

Proverbs 6:24

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

Luke 14:23

And the lord said to the bondman, Go out into the roads and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us, because it is toward evening, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them.

Acts 16:15

And when she was immersed, and her household, she urged us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, after coming into my house, remain. And she constrained us.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

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