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What does Proverbs 7:5 mean?

"that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words."

— Proverbs 7:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

2

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,

5

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

6

For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

7

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

8

passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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