Proverbs 7:5

5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

Proverbs 7:5 in Other Translations

5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

5 Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman, from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

5 They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress - that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.

5 She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a stranger with her flattering talk.

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 to insight, “You are my relative.”

5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.

7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.

Cross References

• 1. ver 21; S Job 31:9; S Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24