Proverbs 5:20
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5:20But why should you be captivated,44 my son, by an adulteress,
and embrace the bosom of a different woman?45
Footnotes
- 44 In the interrogative clause the imperfect has a deliberative nuance.
- 45 Heb “foreigner” (so , ), but this does not mean that the woman is non-Israelite. This term describes a woman who is outside the moral boundaries of the covenant community—she is another man’s wife, but since she acts with moral abandonment she is called “foreign.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?
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NLTNew Living Translation
Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman,
or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,
and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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KJV 1900King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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