Bible Strands
Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The wisdom teacher addresses a young disciple in the middle of a sequential warning against sexual immorality, placing this verse between a description of discipline as life-giving light and a direct command against inward lust.
The words — שָׁמַר (shamar) means to keep or guard, and חֶלְקָה (chelkah) denotes smoothness, describing the adulteress’s persuasive speech.
The thread — This warning echoes in Proverbs 2:16, 5:3, and 7:5, where smooth or seductive words from a forbidden woman are consistently linked to moral danger.
Why it lands — The text commands the reader to treat wisdom’s instruction as a defensive barrier against manipulative speech, requiring deliberate avoidance rather than passive resistance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 2:16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 5:3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 7:5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.