Proverbs 5:3-6

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Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are^(a) smoother than oil,

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in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood^(A)
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.^(B)

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Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol.^(C)

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She doesn’t consider the path of life;
she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.

a. Proverbs 5:3: Lit her palate is

A. Proverbs 5:4: Proverbs 5:8-11; Proverbs 6:32-33; Ecclesiastes 7:26

B. Proverbs 5:4: Psalm 55:21; Psalm 57:4

C. Proverbs 5:5: Proverbs 7:27; Proverbs 9:18