Proverbs 5:3
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- KJV
- For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- WEB
- For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
- ASV
- For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
- DARBY
- For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
- BLB
- For the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey, and smoother than oil [is] her palate;
- ÅB
- For en fremmed kvinnes lepper drypper av honning, og glattere enn olje er hennes tunge;
- OTB
- For en utro kvinnes lepper drypper av honning, og hennes tale er glattere enn olje;
- B1930
- For en fremmed kvinnes leber drypper av honning, og glattere enn olje er hennes tunge;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Read in contextProverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Read in contextProverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Read in contextPsalms 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Read in contextProverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Read in contextRevelation 17:2–6
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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