Proverbs 6:24

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

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

American King James Version (AKJV)

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

American Standard Version (ASV)

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

Webster's Revision

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

World English Bible

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

English Revised Version (ERV)

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger's tongue.

Clarke's Proverbs 6:24 Bible Commentary

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.

Barnes's Proverbs 6:24 Bible Commentary

Evil woman - literally, "woman of evil." In reading what follows, it must be remembered that the warning is against the danger of the sin of the adulterous wife.