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Proverbs 7:5

World English Bible

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

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Proverbs 7:5 in other translations

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

Proverbs 7:5 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 7:5 in context

  1. 3Bind them on your fingers.
    Write them on the tablet of your heart.
  2. 4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
    Call understanding your relative,
  3. 5that they may keep you from the strange woman,
    from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
  4. 6For at the window of my house,
    I looked out through my lattice.
  5. 7I saw among the simple ones.
    I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,