that you may keep (A)discretion,
    and your lips may (B)guard knowledge.
For the lips of (C)a forbidden[a] woman drip honey,
    and her speech[b] is (D)smoother than oil,
but in the end she is (E)bitter as (F)wormwood,
    (G)sharp as (H)a two-edged sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew strange; also verse 20
  2. Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew palate

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