Proverbs 6:24
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious 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
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Read in contextProverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Read in contextProverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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