Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
New American Standard Bible
And embrace the bosom of a
King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Holman Bible
with a forbidden woman
or embrace the breast of a stranger?
A Conservative Version
For why should thou, my son, be ravished with an interloping woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
American Standard Version
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Amplified
Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman
And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?
Bible in Basic English
Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Darby Translation
And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Julia Smith Translation
And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
King James 2000
And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Modern King James verseion
And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman?
NET Bible
But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
New Heart English Bible
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?
Webster
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
World English Bible
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
Youngs Literal Translation
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Themes
Harlot (prostitute) » To be shunned
Marriage » The duties of a husband
Social duties » Brotherly love » Chastity
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 5:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Do Not Commit Adultery Against Wisdom
19 Like a loving deer, a beautiful doe, let her breasts satisfy you all the time. Be constantly intoxicated by her love. 20 Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? 21 Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD's presence, and he weighs all his paths.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:24
to protect you from the evil woman, from the words of the seductive woman.
Proverbs 7:5
so they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive words.
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 2:16-19
delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; a man experiencing the LORD's wrath will fall into it.
Proverbs 23:27-28
because a prostitute is a deep pit, and the adulterous woman a narrow well.
Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and with slurred words you'll speak what you really believe.