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Proverbs 5:3–4

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3For the lips of a dstrange woman edrop as an honeycomb,

And her †mouth is fsmoother than oil:

4But her end is gbitter as hwormwood,

fiSharp as a ktwoedged sword.

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Footnotes

  1. dSee ch. 2:16.
  2. †Heb. palate. See Ps. 119:103.
  3. fSo Ps. 55:21.
  4. gSo Eccles. 7:26.
  5. hDeut. 29:18. Jer. 9:15. & 23:15. Lam. 3:15, 19. Amos 5:7. & 6:12 (Heb.).
  6. fSo Ps. 55:21.
  7. kSee Ps. 149:6.

Cross references

  1. eCant. 4:11.
  2. iPs. 57:4.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil,

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,

sharp as a two-edged sword.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil;

but in the end she is bitter as gall,

sharp as a double-edged sword.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey

and her words are smoother than oil,

in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood

and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey,

and her mouth is smoother than oil.

But in the end she is as bitter as poison,

as dangerous as a double-edged sword.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey,

and smoother than oil is her mouth.

But her end is bitter as the wormwood,

sharp as a two-edged sword.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press