Proverbs 5:4 {5}
Good News Translation
but when it is all over, she leaves you nothing but bitterness and pain.

New Revised Standard Version
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Contemporary English Version
But all that you really get from being with her is bitter poison and pain.

New American Bible
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.

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Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.

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Proverbs 6:24-35 Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks: . . .

Proverbs 7:22,23 Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger. . . .

Proverbs 9:18 A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.

Proverbs 23:27,28 For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. . . .

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Hebrews 12:15,16 Looking diligently, lest any man be wanting to the grace of God: lest any root of bitterness springing up do hinder and by it many be defiled: . . .

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Judges 16:4-6,15-21 After this he loved a woman, who dwelt in the valley of Sorec, and she was called Dalila. . . .

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Context
Avoiding Immorality
3But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword. 4Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.5They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.…
Cross References
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Psalm 55:21
They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Psalm 57:4
And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Proverbs 5:3
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