KJV King James Version
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
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Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
WEB World English Bible
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
ASV American Standard Version
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
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].
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.Psalm 57:4My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.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.Hebrews 4:12For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.Proverbs 9:18But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.Judges 16:15-21And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].Hebrews 12:15-16Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;Proverbs 23:27-28For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.Judges 16:4-6And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.Proverbs 7:22-23He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;Proverbs 6:24-35To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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