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Proverbs 7:5

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

Read it in 5 translations

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

that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

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

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

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

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.

6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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