Proverbs 7:5
If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not sleep with an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you to sleep with her by what she says.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
In Context
6One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16If you are wise [PRS], you will also be saved from ◄immoral women/prostitutes►; you will not pay attention when adulterous women try to ◄seduce/entice you by what they say.►
Proverbs 6:24Heeding [PRS] these commands and things that we have taught you will enable you to keep away from immoral women and from listening to the enticing words of an adulterous 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 →