English Standard Version
Proverbs 6:24
24to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
- New Living Translation (NLT)It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
Context of Proverbs 6:24
22When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. 23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. 25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; 26for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down 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 2:16So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 7:5to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken 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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