Proverbs 6 · Verse 24

Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 6:24, King James Version

Proverbs 6:24 in other translations

BSBto keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
WEBto keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
ASVTo keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.
YLTTo preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
DARBYto keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
BBEThey will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
WebsterTo keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

What does Proverbs 6:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. A specimen of its benefit. By appreciating truth, men are not affected by lying flattery.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35

The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us…

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Proverbs 6:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָLish.ma.re.khato keep youH8104
מֵאֵ֣שֶׁתme.'E.shetfrom a woman ofH802
רָ֑עRa'evilH7451
מֵֽ֝חֶלְקַ֗תme.chel.Katfrom smoothness ofH2513
לָשׁ֥וֹןla.ShontongueH3956
נָכְרִיָּֽה\׃na.khe.ri.Yaha foreign [woman]H5237

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 6:24

  • Proverbs 2:16

    To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

  • Proverbs 7:5

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

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26

    And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Proverbs 5:3

    For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
keep.
2:16; 5:3; 7:5; Ec 7:26
of the tongue of a strange woman. or, of the strange tongue.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 6:23

    For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

  • Proverbs 6:24

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

  • Proverbs 6:25

    Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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Proverbs 6:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Para que te guarden de la mala mujer, de la blandura de la lengua de la extraña.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		pour te garder de la mauvaise femme, des flatteries de la langue d’une étrangère.
German
Elberfelder 1871		um dich zu bewahren vor dem bösen Weibe, vor der Glätte der Zunge einer Fremden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		ut custodiant te a muliere mala, et a blanda lingua extraneæ.