Proverbs 5:19–21
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19She is like a loving doe, a graceful deer.
May her breasts always satisfy you.
May you always be captured by her love.
20My son, why be captured by a woman who commits adultery?
Why hug the wife of another man?
21The Lord watches a man’s ways.
He studies all of his paths.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated always in her love.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord,
and he ponders all his paths.
Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles
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?
For your ways are in full view of the Lord,
and he examines all your paths.
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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?
For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and he considers all his paths.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
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?
For the Lord sees clearly what a man does,
examining every path he takes.
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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?
For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways,
and all his paths he examines.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
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?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And he pondereth all his goings.
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