Proverbs 7:5
 Proverbs 7:5 
New International Version (©2011)
They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

English Standard Version (©2001)
to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a stranger with her flattering talk.

International Standard Version (©2012)
so they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive words.

NET Bible (©2006)
so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
For it will keep you from the estranged woman whose words are seductive.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

American King James Version
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.

American Standard Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.

Darby Bible Translation
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

World English Bible
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Young's Literal Translation
To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-5 We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul. Let the word of God dwell in us, and so be written where it will be always at hand to be read. Thus we shall be kept from the fatal effects of our own passions, and the snares of Satan. Let God's word confirm our dread of sin, and resolutions against it.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - That they may keep thee from the strange woman (see on Proverbs 2:16 and Proverbs 6:24). When the heart is filled with the love of what is good, it is armed against the seductions of evil pleasure or whatever may entice the soul from God and duty. Septuagint, "That she (Wisdom) may keep thee from the strange and evil woman, if she should assail thee with gracious words."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That they may keep thee from the strange woman,.... Nothing has a greater tendency than Christ and his Gospel, and an intimate acquaintance with them, and a retention of them, to keep from all sin, from all fleshly lusts, from the sin of uncleanness; and also from all the errors, heresies, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, of the whore of Rome; a stranger to God and true godliness, to Christ and his truths, the Spirit and his operations;

from the stranger which flattereth with her words; See Gill on Proverbs 2:16; see Gill on Proverbs 5:3, and see Gill on Proverbs 6:24.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. The design of the teaching (compare Pr 2:16; 6:24).


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Warnings about the Adulteress
4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman: 5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words. 6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, …

Proverbs 2:16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 5:20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man's wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
Proverbs 6:24 keeping you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
Proverbs 7:4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and to insight, "You are my relative."
Proverbs 7:6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the LORD's wrath falls into it.