Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Proverbs 5:3 in other translations
| BSB | Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, |
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| WEB | For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, |
| ASV | For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: |
| YLT | For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, |
| DARBY | For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; |
| BBE | For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; |
| Webster | For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
What does Proverbs 5:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 5:1-14
Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds and manners; but the direct view is to warn against seventh-commandment sins. Often these have been, and still are, Satan's method of drawing men from the worship of God into false religion. Consider how fatal the consequences…
Proverbs 5:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 5:3
- 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.
- 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.
- Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- 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. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. …
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Context
- Proverbs 5:2
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
- Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 5:4
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs 5:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque los labios de la extraña destilan miel, y su paladar es más blando que el aceite: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car les lèvres de l’étrangère distillent du miel, et son palais est plus doux que l’huile; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn Honigseim träufeln die Lippen der Fremden, und glatter als Öl ist ihr Gaumen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | favus enim distillans labia meretricis, et nitidius oleo guttur ejus: |