Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Never devote all your energy to sex, or dedicate your life to destroying kings.
New American Standard Bible
Or your ways to that which
King James Version
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Holman Bible
or your efforts on those who destroy kings.
A Conservative Version
Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroys kings.
American Standard Version
Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
Amplified
Do not give your [generative] strength to women [neither foreign wives in marriages of alliances, nor
Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Bible in Basic English
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
Darby Translation
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.
King James 2000
Give not your strength unto women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings.
Modern King James verseion
Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
give not over thy substance and mind unto women, which are the destruction even of kings.
NET Bible
Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.
New Heart English Bible
Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not give, to women, thy strength, nor thy ways, to them who ruin kings.
Webster
Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
World English Bible
Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.
Interlinear
Nathan
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 31:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Oracle Of King Lemuel
2 No, my son! No, my son whom I conceived! No, my son to whom I gave birth! 3 Never devote all your energy to sex, or dedicate your life to destroying kings. 4 It is not for kings, Lemuel Not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire liquor.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:17
Also, he must not accumulate wives for himself (otherwise, his affection will become diverted), nor accumulate for himself excessive quantities of silver and gold.
Nehemiah 13:26
Didn't Solomon, king of Israel, sin by doing these things, even though among many nations there was no king like him who was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel? Even so, foreign women caused him to sin.
Proverbs 5:9-11
so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years;
1 Kings 11:1
But King Solomon married many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too,
Proverbs 7:26-27
For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain.
Hosea 4:11
"Sexual immorality, wine, and fresh wine seduce the heart of my people.