Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.
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;
Julia Smith Translation
For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:
King James 2000
For the lips of an immoral woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Avoid Seduction
2 [in order] to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips. 3 For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth. 4 But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Cross References
Psalm 55:21
The {buttery words} of his mouth were smooth, but [there was] battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they [were] drawn swords.
Proverbs 2:16
[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,
Proverbs 6:24
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 7:5
[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.
Proverbs 7:21
She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.
Revelation 17:2-6
with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."