For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)

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

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(A)For the lips of [a]an immoral woman drip honey,
And her mouth is (B)smoother than oil;

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Lit. a strange

For the lips of (A)a forbidden[a] woman drip honey,
    and her speech[b] is (B)smoother than oil,

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  1. Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew strange; also verse 20
  2. Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew palate

24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
    from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.(A)

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24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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24 (A)To keep you from the evil woman,
From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

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24 to preserve you from the evil woman,[a]
    from the smooth tongue of (A)the adulteress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:24 Revocalization (compare Septuagint) yields from the wife of a neighbor
  2. Proverbs 6:24 Hebrew the foreign woman