Proverbs 5:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²so that you may hold on to prudence,
    and your lips may guard knowledge.
³For the lips of a loose^[a] woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;
⁴but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
    sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Proverbs 5:3 Heb strange

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