Proverbs 30:20

In 10 translations

BSB

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

KJV

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

WEB

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

ASV

So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

LSV

So—the way of an adulterous woman, || She has eaten and has wiped her mouth, || And has said, “I have not done iniquity.”

YLT

So — the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'

DBY

Such is the way of an adulterous woman: she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

DRC

Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

GNV

Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.

JPS

So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 'I have done no wickedness.'

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WLC

כֵּ֤ן ׀ דֶּ֥רֶךְ אִשָּׁ֗ה מְנָ֫אָ֥פֶת אָ֭כְלָה וּמָ֣חֲתָה פִ֑יהָ וְ֝אָמְרָ֗ה לֹֽא־פָעַ֥לְתִּי אָֽוֶן׃

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• Proverbs 7:13–23She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him: “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows. So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you. I have decked my bed with coverings,…
• Proverbs 5:6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
• Numbers 5:11–30Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is…

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