Proverbs 5:20

In 11 translations

BSB

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?Or a foreign woman or another man’s wife

KJV

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

WEB

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

ASV

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

LSV

And why do you magnify yourself, || My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

YLT

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

DBY

And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

DRC

Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

GNV

For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

JPS

Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?

LXXE

Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְלָ֤מָּה תִשְׁגֶּ֣ה בְנִ֣י בְזָרָ֑ה וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗ק חֵ֣ק נָכְרִיָּֽה׃

LXX-Br

Μὴ πολὺς ἴσθι πρὸς ἀλλοτρίαν, μηδὲ συνέχου ἀγκάλαις τῆς μὴ ἰδίας.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 7:5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
• Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
• 1 Kings 11:1King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
• Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
• Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
• Proverbs 23:27–28For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
• Proverbs 2:16–19It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the…

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