Proverbs 5:4

Proverbs chapter 5 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

King James Version · 1611

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

American Standard Version · 1901

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

v.3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

v.4This passage

v.5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Judges 16:15
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lestthere beany man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Proverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.
Proverbs 9:18
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.