Proverbs 7:5

5 [In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

Proverbs 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:5

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).

Proverbs 7:5 In-Context

3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."

5 [In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

6 For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down.

7 And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "a strange woman"
• [b]. Literally "causes to be smooth her words"