that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Proverbs 7:5 in context
Proverbs 7:2–8
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Keep my commandments and live!
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3
Bind them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4
Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Call understanding your relative,
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that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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For at the window of my house,
I looked out through my lattice.
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I saw among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
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passing through the street near her corner,
he went the way to her house,
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