Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Holman Bible
and her words are
International Standard Version
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.
A Conservative Version
For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
American Standard Version
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
Amplified
For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb]
And her speech is smoother than oil;
Bible in Basic English
For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Darby Translation
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
King James 2000
For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.
Modern King James verseion
For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the lips of a harlot are a dropping honeycomb, and her throat is softer than oil.
NET Bible
For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
New Heart English Bible
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
The Emphasized Bible
For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;
Webster
For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
World English Bible
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
Youngs Literal Translation
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
Themes
Chastity » Consequences of associating with those devoid of
Disobedience » The reward for being disobedient to your instructors
Evil » Temptresses, examples of women who have enticed men to sin » strange women
Harlot (prostitute) » To be shunned
Honey » Illustrative of » Lips of a strange woman
Temptresses » Eve » strange women
Whoredom » The reward for whoredom
Women » Harlots » Warnings against
Interlinear
Saphah
Zuwr
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Avoid Seduction
2 To watch meditation, and thy lips shall guard knowledge. 3 For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil: 4 And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.
Cross References
Psalm 55:21
They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.
Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings;
Proverbs 6:24
To watch thee from the woman of evil, from the smoothness of the strange tongue.
Proverbs 7:5
To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.
Proverbs 7:21
With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.
Revelation 17:2-6
With whom the kings of the earth were debauched, and they dwelling upon the earth were intoxicated from the wine of her harlotry.