Proverbs 5:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁴in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood^(A)
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.^(B)

Proverbs 5:4

New International Version

⁴but in the end she is bitter as gall,^(A)
sharp as a double-edged sword.

²¹So what fruit was produced^[a] then from the things you are now ashamed of?^(A) For the end of those things is death.^(B)

²¹What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^(A)

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

New International Version (NIV)