Proverbs 5:4

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

But her end {H319} is bitter {H4751} as wormwood {H3939}, sharp {H2299} as a twoedged {H6310} sword {H2719}.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

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

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26 (7 votes)

    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.

  • Psalms 55:21 (5 votes)

    [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.

  • Psalms 57:4 (5 votes)

    My soul [is] among lions: [and] I lie [even among] them that are set on fire, [even] the sons of men, whose teeth [are] spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

  • Hebrews 4:12 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Proverbs 9:18 (3 votes)

    But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.

  • Judges 16:15 (2 votes)

    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].

  • Judges 16:21 (2 votes)

    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.