Bible verse
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
Proverbs 30:20 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 30.
16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.
18 There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:
19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.
20 This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
21 Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:
22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
23 an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
24 Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:
KJV
Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
ASV
So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
ERV
So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
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