Charles Ellicott Commentary Proverbs 2:16

"To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;" — Proverbs 2:16 (ASV)

To deliver you from the strange woman.— Another work of wisdom is to save from profligacy. Of the two epithets used here, “strange” (zârah) and “stranger” (nokhrîyyah), the first implies that she belonged to another family, and the second to another nation. It would seem as if the evil example of Solomon (1 Kings 11:1), in marrying foreign women, had become common in Israel, and that they, by their vicious lives, had become a deadly source of corruption. Brought up in the lax views of morality that prevailed among pagan nations at this time, they would not consider themselves bound by the high standard of purity that was enjoined upon Hebrew women by the Law.