For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsDBT
For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
ASV
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
WEB
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
YLT
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.