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Proverbs 6:24
24They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.
Proverbs 6:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- New International Version (NIV)keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
- English Standard Version (ESV)to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
- New King James Version (NKJV)To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
Context of Proverbs 6:24
22When you walk here and there, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. 23For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life. They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman. 25Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes. 26For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man goes after a precious life.
Read all of Proverbs 6Proverbs 6:24 word by word
לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ מֵאֵ֣שֶׁת רָ֑ע מֵֽ֝חֶלְקַ֗ת לָשׁ֥וֹן נָכְרִיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 6:24
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,
- Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 7:5She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a wayward woman with her flattering talk.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap: her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
Commentaries on Proverbs 6:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24To keep thee from the evil woman - Solomon had suffered sorely from this quarter; and hence his repeated cautions and warnings to others. The strange woman always means one that is not a man's own; and sometimes it may also imply a foreign harlot, one who is also a stranger to the God of Israel.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Evil woman - literally, “woman of evil.” In reading what follows, it must be remembered that the warning is against the danger of the sin of the adulterous wife.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-35Verses 20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-25The immoral woman uses flattering words and physical beauty to attract young men.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. A specimen of its benefit. By appreciating truth, men are not affected by lying flattery.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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