Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For the lips of a strange woman drop 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:
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,
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 observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, 4 And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
Cross References
Psalm 55:21
Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.
Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
Proverbs 6:24
To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 7:5
To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
Proverbs 7:21
She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
Revelation 17:2-6
with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'