Proverbs 6:24
22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
- KJV
- To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- WEB
- to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
- ASV
- To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner`s tongue.
- DARBY
- to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- BLB
- to guard you from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the tongue of a strange woman.
- ÅB
- så de bevarer deg fra en ond kvinne, fra en fremmed kvinnes glatte tunge.
- OTB
- for å holde deg fra den onde kvinnen, fra den glatte tungen til den villfarne kvinnen.
- B1930
- så de bevarer dig fra en ond kvinne, fra en fremmed kvinnes glatte tunge.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Read in contextProverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Read in contextProverbs 5:3
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
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