Evil Companionship
J. Hamilton, D. D. Proverbs 5:3-5 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:… It would not be complaisance, but cowardice — it would be a sinful softness, which allowed affinity in taste to imperil your faith or your virtue. It would be the same sort of courtesy which in the equatorial forest, for the sake of its beautiful leaf, lets the liana with its strangling arms run up the plantain or the orange, and pays the forfeit in blasted boughs and total ruin. It would be the same sort of courtesy which, for fear of appearing rude and inhospitable, took into dock an infested vessel, or welcomed, not as a patient, but a guest, the plague-stricken stranger. (J. Hamilton, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: WEB: For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,