Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a two-edged sword.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
In Context
3For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;
5Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world:
Cross References
Judges 16:15And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou deceived me, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
Psalms 57:4(57:5) My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [in the midst of] those that send out flames, [those] sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharpened sword.
Proverbs 7:22He followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, the fool:
Proverbs 23:27For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow well.
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 →