Proverbs 6:24

In 11 translations

BSB

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.Or the stranger

KJV

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.of the…: or, of the strange tongue

WEB

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

ASV

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

LSV

To preserve you from an evil woman, || From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

YLT

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

DBY

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

DRC

That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

GNV

To keepe thee from the wicked woman, and from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

JPS

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the alien tongue.

LXXE

to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ מֵאֵ֣שֶׁת רָ֑ע מֵֽ֝חֶלְקַ֗ת לָשׁ֥וֹן נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

τοῦ διαφυλάσσειν σε ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ὑπάνδρου, καὶ ἀπὸ διαβολῆς γλώσσης ἀλλοτρίας.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
• Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
• Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
• Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

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