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Proverbs 6:24
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They will protect you from an evil woman,from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.
To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
They will keep you from sinful women and from the pleasing words of another man's unfaithful wife.
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
To keep you from the evil woman, From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.
To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.
To keep you from the evil woman,From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adultress.
They keep you from an evil woman, from a loose woman's seductive tongue.
to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
It stops you from going to an evil woman, and it protects you from the smooth talk of another man's wife.
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.
to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of the strange woman.
that they maye kepe the fro the euell woman, & from the flaterynge tonge of the harlott:
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the alien tongue.
To keepe thee from the euill woman, from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange woman.
That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.
to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.
`that the comaundementis kepe thee fro an yuel womman, and fro a flaterynge tunge of a straunge womman.
To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman.
They keep you from the sinful woman, from the smooth tongue of a sinful woman.
to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
To keep thee from the wicked woman, from the flattery of the tongue of her that is a stranger.
That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.
to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
They'll protect you from wanton women, from the seductive talk of some temptress. Don't lustfully fantasize on her beauty, nor be taken in by her bedroom eyes. You can buy an hour with a whore for a loaf of bread, but a wanton woman may well eat you alive. Can you build a fire in your lap and not burn your pants? Can you walk barefoot on hot coals and not get blisters? It's the same when you have sex with your neighbor's wife: Touch her and you'll pay for it. No excuses. Hunger is no excuse for a thief to steal; When he's caught he has to pay it back, even if he has to put his whole house in hock. Adultery is a brainless act, soul-destroying, self-destructive; Expect a bloody nose, a black eye, and a reputation ruined for good. For jealousy detonates rage in a cheated husband; wild for revenge, he won't make allowances. Nothing you say or pay will make it all right; neither bribes nor reason will satisfy him.
To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
keep: Proverbs 2:16, Proverbs 5:3, Proverbs 7:5, Ecclesiastes 7:26
of the tongue of a strange woman: or, of the strange tongue
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:14 - General Exodus 20:17 - wife Leviticus 15:20 - General Judges 11:2 - a strange Judges 16:5 - Entice 1 Kings 11:1 - loved Proverbs 5:4 - her Proverbs 5:20 - with Proverbs 11:9 - through Proverbs 22:14 - mouth Proverbs 26:28 - a flattering 1 Corinthians 6:18 - Flee
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To keep thee from the evil woman,.... This is one use of the profit arising from attending to the instructions of parents, and to the law of God, as taught by them; to preserve from fornication and adultery, one of its precepts expressly forbidding adultery and all corporeal uncleanness; and the whole of it directing to an observance of all duties respecting God and our neighbour, which requires diligence and industry, and prevents idleness, that inlet to all sin, and especially to uncleanness k;
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman; the same with the evil woman, the lewd and adulterous one; see Proverbs 2:16. Jarchi interprets this of idolatry; the character well agrees with the idolatrous church of Rome, or antichrist, represented by a whore,
Revelation 17:1; as this woman is called "the woman of evil" l, for so it may be rendered, one very evil, given up and abandoned to sin; so antichrist is called "the man of sin", 2 Thessalonians 2:3; and as this woman is said to have the "smoothness of a strange tongue" m, as the words may be translated, and are by the Targum; so the religion of this false church is delivered in a strange language the people understand not, by which they are kept in ignorance and deception; now the word of God read and explained in the mother tongue, and especially the Gospel part of it, the doctrine of wisdom, is a means of preserving persons from the errors and heresies, superstition and idolatry, of the church of Rome, and from being carried away with their false glosses, and gaudy worship, and all its deceivable ways of unrighteousness.
k "Otia si tollas periere cupidinis arcus", Ovid. de Remed. Amor. l. 1. v. 139. Quaeritur Aegistheus, "quare sit factus adulter?--in promptu causa est, desidiosus erat". Ibid. v. 161, 162. l מאשת רע "a muliere mali", Baynus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. m מחלקת לשון נכריה "a lenitate linguae extraneae", Montanus; "a laevitate linguae peregrinae", Michaelis; "ex lubrica glabritie linguae peregrinae", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Evil 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 6:24. To 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.
