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Proverbs 5:19–20

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19a lovely udeer, a graceful doe.

Let her breasts vfill you at all times with delight;

be intoxicated4 always in her love.

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

and embrace the bosom of wan adulteress?5

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Footnotes

  1. 4Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
  2. 5Hebrew a foreign woman

Cross references

  1. uSong 2:9, 17; 8:14
  2. v[Jer. 31:14]
  3. wSee ch. 2:16

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

A loving doe, a graceful deer—

may her breasts satisfy you always,

may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

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

Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

A loving deer, a graceful doe—

let her breasts always satisfy you;

be lost in her love forever.

Why, my son, would you lose yourself

with a forbidden woman

or embrace a wayward woman?

NLTNew Living Translation

She is a loving deer, a graceful doe.

Let her breasts satisfy you always.

May you always be captivated by her love.

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

or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

She is a deer of love and a doe of grace;

may her breasts satisfy you always;

by her love may you be intoxicated continually.

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

and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

KJV 1900King James Version

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe;

Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;

And be thou ravished always with her love.

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

And embrace the bosom of a stranger?