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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 5, Verse 4

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For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
King James Version
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
American Standard Version
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
New English Translation
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
World English Bible
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
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Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
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Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
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And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.