Proverbs 5:8

Amplified Bible

Let your way [in life] be far from her, And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation],

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Keep your way far from her.Don’t go near the door of her house.

Hebrew Names Version
Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

King James Version
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

English Standard Version
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

New Century Version
Stay away from such a woman. Don't even go near the door of her house,

New English Translation
Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

New American Standard Bible
Keep your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,

World English Bible
Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

Legacy Standard Bible
Keep your way far from herAnd do not go near the door of her house,

Berean Standard Bible
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Contemporary English Version
Stay away from a bad woman! Don't even go near the door of her house.

Complete Jewish Bible
distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house;

Darby Translation
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Easy-to-Read Version
Stay away from the woman who commits adultery. Don't even go near her house.

George Lamsa Translation
Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house;

Good News Translation
Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!

Lexham English Bible
Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,

Literal Translation
Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near to the door of her house,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye ye dores of hir house.

American Standard Version
Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

Bible in Basic English
Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house;

King James Version (1611)
Remoue thy way farre from her, and come not nie the doore of her house:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe thy way farre from her, & come not nigh the doores of her house.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remove thy way far from her; draw not near to the doors of her house:

English Revised Version
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make fer thi weie fro hir, and neiye thou not to the doris of hir hous.

Update Bible Version
Remove your way far from her, And don't come near the door of her house;

Webster's Bible Translation
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

New King James Version
Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,

New Living Translation
Stay away from her! Don't go near the door of her house!

New Life Bible
Keep far away from her. Do not go near the door of her house.

New Revised Standard
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Revised Standard Version
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;

Young's Literal Translation
Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Keep your way far from her And do not go near the door of her house,

Contextual Overview

¹My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding; ²That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation]. ³For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb] And her speech is smoother than oil; ⁴But in the end she is bitter like [the extract of] wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), ⁶So that she does not think [seriously] about the path of life; Her ways are aimless and unstable; you cannot know where her path leads. ⁷Now then, my sons, listen to me And do not depart from (forget) the words of my mouth. ⁸Let your way [in life] be far from her, And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation], ⁹Or you will give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one, ¹⁰And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God];

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 4:15, Proverbs 6:27, Proverbs 6:28, Matthew 6:13, Ephesians 5:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:10 - or to be Genesis 39:12 - and he left 1 Kings 11:1 - loved Job 21:16 - the counsel Proverbs 1:15 - refrain Proverbs 7:8 - General Proverbs 7:25 - thine Proverbs 29:3 - he Matthew 5:29 - for Luke 15:13 - wasted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remove thy way far from her,.... The way of the mind, walk, and conversation; keep at the greatest distance from her; neither come where she is, nor look at her, nor converse with her; shun her, as one would the pest or a loathsome carcass; go a good way about rather than come near her, or be within sight of her, or so as to be in any danger of being ensnared by her;

and come not nigh the door of her house; not only not enter her chamber, but go not to her house; no, not over the threshold of the door, nor near the door; but avoid her house, as one would a house that has the plague in it. Men should not go in the way of temptation, trusting to their own strength; they may be entangled and overcome before they are aware; is good to keep out of the way of it. And as it becomes the children of Wisdom to wait at her gates, and at the posts of her door, to gain knowledge and understanding of divine things; so they should not go within the doors of false teachers, nor near them, nor admit them within theirs. It is a complaint against the church at Thyatira, that she suffered the woman Jezebel, the Romish harlot, to teach and seduce the servants of Christ, or connived at their attendance on her, Revelation 2:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 5:8. Come not nigh the door of her house — Where there are generally such exhibitions as have a natural tendency to excite impure thoughts, and irregular passions.