Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, || And her mouth [is] smoother than oil,
Literal Standard 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
2To observe thoughtfulness, || And your lips keep knowledge.
4And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, || Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16To deliver you from the strange woman, || From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,
Proverbs 7:5To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit, || The abhorred of YHWH falls there.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed whoredom; and those inhabiting the earth were made drunk from the wine of her whoredom”;
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 →