Proverbs 7:5
To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
In Context
4Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”
6For at a window of my house, || I have looked out through my casement,
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16To deliver you from the strange woman, || From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,
Proverbs 6:24To preserve you from an evil woman, || From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →