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Proverbs 5:3

What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,

Translation for Translators

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

2If you do that, you will be able to choose wisely what to do, and you will know the right things to say [MTY].

4but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.

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Cross References

Proverbs 2:16If you are wise [PRS], you will also be saved from ◄immoral women/prostitutes►; you will not pay attention when adulterous women try to ◄seduce/entice you by what they say.►

Proverbs 7:5If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not sleep with an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you to sleep with her by what she says.

Proverbs 22:14What ◄wives who commit adultery/immoral women► say to men [MTY] is like a deep pit [MET] into which those men fall; those with whom Yahweh is angry will fall into that pit.

Revelation 17:2It is as though the rulers of earth have acted immorally and idolatrously with the people of that city [MET], and they have persuaded people who live on the earth to act immorally and idolatrously with them [MET], just like a prostitute persuades men to drink the strong wine she gives them, resulting in their becoming drunk and then committing sexual immorality. with her.”

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 →

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