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Then you will continue to have good sense.
    Your lips will keep on speaking words of knowledge.
A woman who commits adultery has lips that drip honey.
    What she says is smoother than olive oil.
But in the end she is like bitter poison.
    She cuts like a sword that has two edges.

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that you may maintain discretion
    and your lips may preserve knowledge.
For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)
but in the end she is bitter as gall,(B)
    sharp as a double-edged sword.

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