Proverbs 5:4New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But her latter end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But her end is bitter as wormewood, sharpe as a two edged sword.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But the end of her life is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— but afterwards thou wilt find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. |
But her end
319 {0319} Primeאַחֲרִית'achariyth{akh-ar-eeth'}
From H0310; the last or end, hence the future; also posterity.
is bitter
4751 {4751} Primeמַרmar{mar}
From H4843; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly.
as wormwood,
3939 {3939} Primeלַעֲנָהla`anah{lah-an-aw'}
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed).
sharp
2299
as a twoedged
6310 {6310} Primeפֶּהpeh{peh}
From H6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literally or figuratively (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to.
sword.
2719 {2719} Primeחֶרֶבchereb{kheh'-reb}
From H2717; drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement. |
Proverbs 5:4
_ _ her end — literally, “her future,” in sense of reward, what follows (compare Psalms 37:37; Psalms 73:17). Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those of Proverbs 5:3. The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate are notoriously terrible. |
Proverbs 5:4
But — The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction. |
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Proverbs 6:24-35 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ... He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Proverbs 7:22-23 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; ... Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
Proverbs 23:27-28 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. ... She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Hebrews 12:15-16 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled; ... Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
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Judges 16:4-6 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah. ... And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
Judges 16:15-21 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth]. ... But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Psalms 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.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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