Proverbs 5:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 57:4

I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters; he who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.