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Proverbs 7:5
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3 aBind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart. 
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your nearest kin,
5 aThat they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words. 

The Crafty Harlot

6 For at the window of my house
I looked through my lattice,
7 And saw among the simple,
I perceived among the1 youths,
A young man adevoid of understanding, 
8 Passing along the street near her corner;
And he took the path to her house
9 aIn the twilight, in the evening,
In the black and dark night. 
10 And there a woman met him,
With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.
11 aShe was loud and rebellious,
bHer feet would not stay at home. 
12 At times she was outside, at times in the open square,
Lurking at every corner.
13 So she caught him and kissed him;
With an1 impudent face she said to him: 
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What Does Proverbs 7:5 Mean?



Proverbs 7:5

Verse 5 introduces the main symbol in this chapter, the "strange woman," as the King James Version calls her. Other translations refer to this immoral woman as a "seductress," "adulteress," "wayward wife," "loose woman," "adventuress," or "foreigner."

The word translated "strange" indicates a deficient quality in a relationship. It represents something that is lacking or incomplete in comparison to an ideal or a standard. This woman was not living up to the standard or ideal of a godly wife, and so the Bible brands her as strange.

In our own lives, if we do not recognize somebody, we say that person is a stranger. The same principle is at work here—God does not recognize this woman because she does not live by the standards that He has established for women in general, and specifically for a wife.

David C. Grabbe
Strange Women

Related Topics: Adulteress | Adventuress | Foreigner | Immoral Woman | Loose Woman | Seductress | Strange | Strange Woman | Strange Women | Wayward Wife




Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Proverbs 7:5:

Ecclesiastes 7:25-27
Ecclesiastes 7:26


 
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