so that you may maintain discretion
and your lips safeguard knowledge.(A)
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are[a] smoother than oil,
in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood(B)
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Lit her palate is

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