Proverbs 5:4
but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
In Context
3For the lips of the strange 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 16:15Then she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou mocked me, and hast not told me in what is thy great strength.
Psalms 57:4My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [among] them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 7:22He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
Proverbs 23:27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God [is] living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to [the] division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of [the] heart.
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 →