Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
World Messianic Bible
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
2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.
4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:16to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell on the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”
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 →