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so that you may hold on to insight,
so your lips may guard knowledge,
because the lips of an immoral woman drip with honey,
and her words are[a] as smooth as olive oil,
but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood[b]
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Literally her palate is
  2. Proverbs 5:4 Wormwood is a toxic, bitter-tasting drink (absinthe).