The Strange Woman

Proverbs 5:3 “For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.”

The strange woman in the book of Proverbs is a strange woman & the strange woman as in the harlot of Babylon which is the mother of harlots–so like mother, like daughter. She is juxtaposed to wisdom in the book. The strange woman is an adulteress & consider this series:

Proverbs 7:18 “Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.”

I refuse to believe that a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ can miss the bigger implications in the above series (Mark 13:34).

To return to the article’s opening verses from Proverbs 5, I searched the scriptures & here are some correlations & contrasts to the verses about the strange woman (I added the roman numerals to clearly delineate the sections–there is a lot of scripture):

I: Proverbs 5:3 “For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb…”

Proverbs 16:24 “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb…”

She speaks some pleasant words, they drop as an honeycomb, thus they drop like honey. In contrast the law, testimony, statutes, commandment, fear & judgments of the LORD (Psalms 19:7-9):

Psalms 19:10 “..sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”

II: Proverbs 5:3 “…and her mouth is smoother than oil:”

This section took me a long time to correlate (or as I believe not in the nature of a boast: the Lord finally showed me) because I was focussed entirely on the oil.  Her mouth is smoother than oil–she speaks smoother than smooth things:

Isaiah 30:10 “Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:”

The people only wanted to hear smooth things even if they are lies. The subject of peace always sounds like a smooth thing, but is it truth?:

Jeremiah 8:11 “For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.”

Thus, I correlate the sequence to a false prophetess:

Revelation 2:20 “Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.”

III Proverbs 5:4 “But her end is bitter as wormwood,…”

If you recall in section I, the judgments of the LORD (Psalm 19:7-10) are included amongst the things that,  “…are sweeter also than the honey and the honeycomb.”

Amos 5:7 “Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,”

Romans 1:32 “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

Thus we have the judgment of God & the woman promotes celebrating the opposite (readers of Romans 1 should understand a common popular issue that certainly relates). The word wormwood correlates to bitterness (Lam 3:15, Rev 8:10-11):

Deuteronomy 32:32 “For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.”

With the venoms of asps, see Romans 3:13-3:18, which includes:

Romans 3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

Juxtaposed to the wormwood & the bitterness of that vine:

John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.”

In Revelation 8:11 “..and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.” Thus, the waters poisoned by Wormwood are a deadly drink:

Mark 16:18 “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them…”

IV Proverbs 5:4 “..sharp as a twoedged sword. ”

Her end is as sharp as a twoedged sword. That is an end to be feared:

Luke 12:5 “But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”

Proverbs 8:13 “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”

Her end is sharp as a twoedged sword, but:

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword…”

V Proverbs 5:5 “Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.”

Concerning the same strange woman:

Proverbs 2:19 “None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.”

The strange women takes us in quite a different direction than life:

Matthew 7:13 “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

VI Proverbs 5:6 “Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.”

She could make you ponder the path of life (for example ponder John 14:6), like the common claim that there are many religions & many different paths to God. That is not what the word of God says:

1 Timothy 2:15 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”

1 John 2:22 “Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.”

One can never be certain because of her moveable ways; the opposite of simplicity:

2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”

Her ways are moveable, in contrast:

Malachi 3:6 “For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”