"For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil: {mouth: Heb. palate}" — Proverbs 5:3

Proverbs 5:3 · KJV

“For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil: {mouth: Heb. palate}”

— Proverbs 5:3

That thou mayest regard discretion, and {that} thy lips may keep knowledge.

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

Proverbs 5 — Context

My son, attend unto my wisdom, {and} bow thine ear to my understanding:

That thou mayest regard discretion, and {that} thy lips may keep knowledge.

For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil: {mouth: Heb. palate}

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

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. {of the...: or, of the strange tongue}

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words.

Proverbs 7:21

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Psalms 55:21

{The words} of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war {was} in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet {were} they drawn swords.

Revelation 17:2-6

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.