Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; New Living Translation For the lips of an immoral woman are as sweet as honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil. English Standard Version For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, Berean Standard Bible Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, King James Bible For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: New King James Version For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; New American Standard Bible For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, And her speech is smoother than oil; NASB 1995 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech; NASB 1977 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, And smoother than oil is her speech; Legacy Standard Bible For the lips of a strange woman drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech; Amplified Bible For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb] And her speech is smoother than oil; Christian Standard Bible Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, Holman Christian Standard Bible Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are smoother than oil, American Standard Version For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: Contemporary English Version The words of an immoral woman may be as sweet as honey and as smooth as olive oil. English Revised Version For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil: GOD'S WORD® Translation The lips of an adulterous woman drip with honey. Her kiss is smoother than oil, Good News Translation The lips of another man's wife may be as sweet as honey and her kisses as smooth as olive oil, International Standard Version For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil. Majority Standard Bible Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, NET Bible For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil, New Heart English Bible For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, Webster's Bible Translation For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: World English Bible For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor the lips of a strange woman drop honey, "" And her mouth [is] smoother than oil, Young's Literal Translation For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, Smith's Literal Translation For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil. Catholic Public Domain Version For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil. New American Bible Indeed, the lips of the stranger drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; New Revised Standard Version For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her words are smoother than oil; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because the lips of an estranged woman are dripping honey and her words are softer than oil. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; Brenton Septuagint Translation for honey drops from the lips of a harlot, who for a season pleases thy palate: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Avoiding Immorality…2that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. 3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, 4in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.… Cross References Proverbs 7:21-23 With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him. / He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap, / until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life. Proverbs 2:16-19 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. ... Proverbs 6:24-29 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. / Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. / For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. ... Proverbs 9:13-18 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. / She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. ... Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it. Proverbs 23:27-28 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. / Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. Proverbs 30:20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’ Jeremiah 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed. Hosea 4:11 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding. Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. James 1:14-15 But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, / not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; 2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. Treasury of Scripture For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: the lips Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. smoother Psalm 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. Jump to Previous Adulteress Drip Drop Dropping Honey Honeycomb Honey-Comb Lips Mouth Oil Smoother Speech StrangeJump to Next Adulteress Drip Drop Dropping Honey Honeycomb Honey-Comb Lips Mouth Oil Smoother Speech StrangeProverbs 5 1. Solomon exhorts to wisdom3. He shows the mischief of unfaithfulness and riot 15. He exhorts to contentedness, generosity, and chastity 22. The wicked are overtaken with their own sins the lips of the forbidden woman The phrase "the lips of the forbidden woman" refers to the seductive and enticing nature of an adulterous or immoral woman. In Hebrew, the word for "forbidden" is "zār," which can also mean "strange" or "foreign." This suggests not only a literal outsider but also someone who is outside the bounds of God's covenant and moral law. The lips symbolize communication and allure, indicating how temptation often begins with enticing words or promises that seem appealing but lead to spiritual and moral downfall. drip honey her speech is smoother than oil (3) Her mouth is smoother than oil.--The experience of David also with Ahitophel (Psalm 55:21). Verse 3. - The teacher enters upon the subject of his warning, and under two familiar figures - common alike to Oriental and Greek writers - describes the nature of the "strange woman's" allurements. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb. The conjunction "for" (Hebrew ki) here, like the LXX. γὰρ, states the reason why the preceding exhortation is worthy of attention. Some commentators render "although," "albeit," as corresponding with the antithetical "but" in ver. 4. The lips; siphthey, the construct case of saphah in ver. 2. The organ of speech is here used for the speech itself, like the parallel "mouth." A strange woman (zarah); i.e. the harlot. The word occurs before in Proverbs 2:16, and again inch. 5:20; 7:5; 22:14; 23. 33. She is extranea, a stranger with respect to the youth whom she would beguile, either as being of foreign extraction, or as being the wife of another man, in which capacity she is so represented in Proverbs 7:19. In this sense she would be an adulteress. St. Jerome, in Ezekiel 6, takes her as the representative of the allurements from sound doctrine, and of corrupt worship (Wordsworth). Drop as an honeycomb (nopheth tithoph nah); rather, distil honey. The Hebrew nophteth is properly a "dropping," distillatio, and so the honey flowing from the honeycombs (tsuphim). Kimchi explains it as the honey flowing from the cells before they are broken, and hence it is the pure fine virgin honey. Exactly the same phrase occurs in Song of Solomon 4:11, "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as an honeycomb (nopheth tithoph'nah)." The only other places where we meet with the word nopheth are Psalm 24:10 (11) (there combined with tsuphim, which helps to determine its meaning) and Proverbs 24:13; Proverbs 27:7. The meaning is the same as she "flattereth with her words" of Proverbs 7:5, in which chapter the teacher gives an example of the alluring words which the strange woman uses (Proverbs 7:14-20). As honey is sweet and attractive to the taste, so in a higher degree are her words pleasant to the senses. Her mouth is smoother than oil; i.e. her words are most plausible and persuasive. The Hebrew khik is properly "the palate," though it also included the corresponding lower part of the mouth (Gesenius). It is used as the instrument or organ of speech in Proverbs 8:7, "For my mouth (khik) shall speak truth;" and in Job 31:30, "I have not suffered my mouth (khik) to sin." Under the same figure David describes the treachery of his friend in Psalm 55:22, "His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Thoughכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction the lips שִׂפְתֵ֣י (śip̄·ṯê) Noun - fdc Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin of the forbidden woman זָרָ֑ה (zā·rāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery drip תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה (tiṭ·ṭō·p̄ə·nāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural Strong's 5197: To ooze, distil gradually, to fall in drops, to speak by inspiration honey נֹ֣פֶת (nō·p̄eṯ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5317: Flowing honey, honey from the comb and her speech חִכָּֽהּ׃ (ḥik·kāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 2441: Palate, roof of the mouth, gums [is] smoother וְחָלָ֖ק (wə·ḥā·lāq) Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 2509: Smooth than oil, מִשֶּׁ֣מֶן (miš·še·men) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8081: Grease, liquid, richness Links Proverbs 5:3 NIVProverbs 5:3 NLT Proverbs 5:3 ESV Proverbs 5:3 NASB Proverbs 5:3 KJV Proverbs 5:3 BibleApps.com Proverbs 5:3 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 5:3 Chinese Bible Proverbs 5:3 French Bible Proverbs 5:3 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip (Prov. 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