Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
In Context
2that thou may preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth fornicated, and those who inhabit the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 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… Read the whole commentary →