Proverbs 5:3
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Footnotes
- 5:3 A metaphorical level is established in the opening description of the forbidden woman: her lips drip honey and her feet lead to death. By her lies, she leads people away from the wisdom that gives life.
Proverbs 5:20
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20 Why then, my son, should you be intoxicated with a stranger,
and embrace another woman?
Proverbs 6:24
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24 Keeping you from another’s wife,
from the smooth tongue of the foreign woman.(A)
Proverbs 7:5
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5 That they may keep you from a stranger,
from the foreign woman with her smooth words.(A)
Proverbs 22:14
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14 The mouth of the foreign woman is a deep pit;(A)
whoever incurs the Lord’s anger will fall into it.
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