Proverbs - 7:5

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5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 7:5.

Differing Translations

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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.
So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The strange woman - The prostitute, the adulteress.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman,.... Nothing has a greater tendency than Christ and his Gospel, and an intimate acquaintance with them, and a retention of them, to keep from all sin, from all fleshly lusts, from the sin of uncleanness; and also from all the errors, heresies, idolatry, superstition, and will worship, of the whore of Rome; a stranger to God and true godliness, to Christ and his truths, the Spirit and his operations;
from the stranger which flattereth with her words; See Gill on Proverbs 2:16; see Gill on Proverbs 5:3, and see Gill on Proverbs 6:24.

The design of the teaching (compare Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24).

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