New English Translation
Proverbs 7:5
5so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
Proverbs 7:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- New International Version (NIV)They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
- English Standard Version (ESV)to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
- New King James Version (NKJV)That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words.
Context of Proverbs 7:5
3Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative, so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words. 6For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out 7and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:5 word by word
לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה זָרָ֑ה מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ הֶחֱלִֽיקָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:5
- Proverbs 2:16to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
- Proverbs 6:24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The strange woman - The prostitute, the adulteress.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Wisdom leaves no room for a woman who uses flattery to appeal to a young man's vanity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. The design of the teaching (compare Pr 2:16; 6:24).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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