Proverbs 5:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ But her latter 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.

Proverbs 5:4 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find a thing more bitter than death, even 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.

Psalm 57:4

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

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Proverbs 9:18

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