Proverbs 5:4

but 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

In Context

3What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey, and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,

5If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are. Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.

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Cross References

Judges 16:15Then Delilah said to him, “How can you say that you love me when you do not tell me the truth about yourself? You have deceived me three times, and you still have not told me what really makes you so strong!”

Psalms 57:4Sometimes I am surrounded by my enemies who are like lions that kill humans; they are like lions that chew with their teeth animals that they kill; but my enemies have spears and arrows, not teeth; and the false things that they say [MTY] hurt people as much as sharp swords hurt people [MET].

Proverbs 7:22And he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,

Proverbs 23:27Prostitutes and immoral women [DOU] are like [MET] a deep pit or a well that you may fall into.

Hebrews 4:12Beware of being insincere about doing this, because the message God has given us very powerfully penetrates our thinking more than a two-edged sword penetrates flesh [MET]. It penetrates deeply into our souls and spirits, as a sharp sword can penetrate into our joints and marrow. That is, by his message God [PRS] discerns all that we think about, and he discerns all that we desire to do [MTY] (OR, His message exposes to us all our thoughts and all our desires).

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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