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Proverbs 5:20

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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. 5Hebrew a foreign woman

Cross references

  1. wSee ch. 2:16

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Why, my son, would you lose yourself

with a forbidden woman

or embrace a wayward woman?

NLTNew Living Translation

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

or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

KJV 1900King James Version

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

And embrace the bosom of a stranger?