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Proverbs 5:20

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20For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an 1aadulteress

And embrace the bosom of a bforeigner?

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit strange woman

Cross references

  1. aProv 5:3
  2. bProv 2:16; 6:24; 7:5; 23:27

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

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?