Proverbs 6:24 {25}
Good News Translation
It can keep you away from bad women, from the seductive words of other men's wives.

New Revised Standard Version
to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Contemporary English Version
They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.

New American Bible
Keeping you from another’s wife, from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

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Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

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Proverbs 2:16 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Proverbs 5:3 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 7:5 For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Context
Warnings Against Adultery
23That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger. 24Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:25For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.…
Cross References
Genesis 39:8
But he in no wise consenting to that wicked act said to her: Behold, my master hath delivered all things to me, and knoweth not what he hath in his own house:

Proverbs 2:16
And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

Proverbs 5:3
But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:20
The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

Proverbs 7:5
For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,

Proverbs 7:21
Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,

Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Proverbs 6:23
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