Proverbs 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ but in the end she 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

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Hebrews 4:12

Indeed, the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.