Proverbs 30:20
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30:20This is the way53 of an adulterous54 woman:
she eats and wipes her mouth55
and says, “I have not done wrong.”56
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- 53 Equally amazing is the insensitivity of the adulterous woman to the sin. The use of the word “way” clearly connects this and the preceding material. Its presence here also supports the interpretation of the final clause in v. 19 as referring to sexual intimacy. While that is a wonder of God’s creation, so is the way that human nature has distorted it and ruined it.
- 54 The word clearly indicates that the woman is married and unchaste; but the text describes her as amoral as much as immoral—she sees nothing wrong with what she does.
- 55 The acts of “eating” and “wiping her mouth” are euphemistic; they employ an implied comparison between the physical act of eating and wiping one’s mouth afterward on the one hand with sexual activity on the other hand (e.g., Prov 9:17).
- 56 This is the amazing part of the observation. It is one thing to sin, for everyone sins, but to dismiss the act of adultery so easily, as if it were no more significant than a meal, is incredibly brazen.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I have done no wrong.”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“This is the way of an adulterous woman:
She eats and wipes her mouth
and says, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
This is the way of an adulteress:
she eats and wipes her mouth
and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”
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NLTNew Living Translation
An adulterous woman consumes a man,
then wipes her mouth and says, “What’s wrong with that?”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
This is the way of a woman committing adultery:
she eats and wipes her mouth,
and says “I have not done wrong.”
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
Such is the way of an adulterous woman;
She eateth, and wipeth her mouth,
And saith, I have done no wickedness.
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