Parallel Verses
Amplified
That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the foreigner [who does not observe God’s laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.
New American Standard Bible
From the foreigner who
King James Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Holman Bible
a stranger with her flattering talk.
International Standard Version
so they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive words.
A Conservative Version
that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
American Standard Version
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
Bible in Basic English
So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
Darby Translation
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
Julia Smith Translation
To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.
King James 2000
That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.
Modern King James verseion
so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.
NET Bible
so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
New Heart English Bible
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
The Emphasized Bible
That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.
Webster
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
World English Bible
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Youngs Literal Translation
To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
Topics
Interlinear
Shamar
Zuwr
Nokriy
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against The Strange Woman
4
Say to [skillful and godly] wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And regard understanding and intelligent insight as your intimate friends;
That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the foreigner [who does not observe God’s laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.
For at the window of my house
I looked out through my lattice.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16
To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,
Proverbs 6:24
To keep you from the evil woman,
From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.
Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb]
And her speech is smoother than oil;