23 For (A)the commandment is a lamp and the [a]teaching is light;
And rebukes for discipline are the way of life
24 To (B)keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:23 Or law

23 For this command is a lamp,
    this teaching is a light,(A)
and correction and instruction
    are the way to life,(B)
24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(C)

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23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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