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Honey flows from a wooden dipper into a bowl beside a clay oil vessel.
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Proverbs 5:3

Honey and Smooth Oil

Keep Discretion and Rejoice in Faithful Love · Proverbs 5

Story guide: Honey and oil illustrate the explicit comparison with appealing speech; no seductive encounter is staged.

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3For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil.

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