Proverbs 5:4
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
In Context
3For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
5Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold on Sheol,
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she said to him, How can thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Thou have mocked me these three times, and have not told me with what thy great strength lays.
Psalms 57:4My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 7:22He goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Proverbs 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living, and potent, and sharper, above every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division both of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and discernible of the thoughts and intentions of the hear
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 →