Proverbs 6:24
New International Version
keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

New Living Translation
It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.

English Standard Version
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Berean Standard Bible
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

King James Bible
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

New King James Version
To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

New American Standard Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

NASB 1995
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

NASB 1977
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Legacy Standard Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

Amplified Bible
To keep you from the evil woman, From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.

Christian Standard Bible
They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a stranger.

American Standard Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
To keep you from the evil woman and from the slander of the tongue of the estranged woman.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

Contemporary English Version
They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

English Revised Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
to keep you from an evil woman and from the smooth talk of a loose woman.

Good News Translation
It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.

International Standard Version
to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman.

JPS Tanakh 1917
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the smoothness of the alien tongue.

Literal Standard Version
To preserve you from an evil woman, | From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Majority Standard Bible
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

New American Bible
Keeping you from another’s wife, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

NET Bible
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

New Revised Standard Version
to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

New Heart English Bible
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the foreign woman.

Webster's Bible Translation
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

World English Bible
to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Young's Literal Translation
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Warnings Against Adultery
23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life, 24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.…

Cross References
Genesis 39:8
But he refused. "Look," he said to his master's wife, "with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 5:3
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 5:20
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Proverbs 7:21
With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Ecclesiastes 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.


Treasury of Scripture

To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

keep

Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
to keep you
לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ (liš·mā·rə·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

from the evil
רָ֑ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

woman,
מֵאֵ֣שֶׁת (mê·’ê·šeṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

from the smooth
מֵֽ֝חֶלְקַ֗ת (mê·ḥel·qaṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2513: Smoothness, flattery, an allotment

tongue
לָשׁ֥וֹן (lā·šō·wn)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 3956: The tongue

of the stranger.
נָכְרִיָּֽה׃ (nā·ḵə·rî·yāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 5237: Foreign, alien


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