Proverbs 5:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴ but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a twoedged sword.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged and devouring sword.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

Common English Bible

⁴ but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.

Proverbs 5:4 Cross References

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.

Psalm 57:4

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.

Proverbs 9:18

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

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 4:12

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged 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.