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;

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  • Proverbs 7:5

    That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

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  • Ecclesiastes 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.

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  • Proverbs 5:3

    For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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