KJV King James Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
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Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
WEB World English Bible
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
ASV American Standard Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
Surrounding context — Proverbs 5
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.
3 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.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
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Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.Proverbs 7:21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.Psalm 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.Revelation 17:2-6With 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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