Parallel Verses

King James 2000

For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

New American Standard Bible

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

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;

Julia Smith Translation

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above 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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the lips
שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

נטף 
Nataph 
Usage: 18

as an honeycomb
נפת 
Nopheth 
Usage: 5

and her mouth
חך 
Chek 
mouth, roof of the mouth, taste
Usage: 18

חלק 
Chalaq 
Usage: 4

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Avoid Seduction

2 That you may preserve discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.



Cross References

Psalm 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 2:16

To deliver you from the immoral woman, even from the seductress who flatters with her words;

Proverbs 6:24

To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a seductress.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 7:21

With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.

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.

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