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Proverbs 5:20

20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by gan immoral woman,

And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

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Proverbs 5:20 — The New International Version (NIV)

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?

Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

Proverbs 5:20 — English Standard Version (ESV)

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman

and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Proverbs 5:20 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,

And embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:20 — New Living Translation (NLT)

20 Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman,

or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?

Proverbs 5:20 — New Century Version (NCV)

20 My son, don’t be held captive by a woman who takes part in adultery.

Don’t fondle a woman who is not your wife.

Proverbs 5:20 — American Standard Version (ASV)

20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,

And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Proverbs 5:20 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

20 And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:20 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

20 Why should you, my son, 

be intoxicated with an adulterous woman 

and fondle a loose woman’s breast? 

Proverbs 5:20 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

20 Why, my son, would you be infatuated

with a forbidden woman

or embrace the breast of a stranger?

Proverbs 5:20 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman

and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Proverbs 5:20 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

20 Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,

and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Proverbs 5:20 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

20 My son, why be captured by a woman who commits adultery?

Why hug the wife of another man?

Proverbs 5:20 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

20 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress

And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?


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