Parallel Verses
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?
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?
International Standard Version
Why should you be intoxicated by an adulteress, my son, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
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)?
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 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms? 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:24
They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Proverbs 7:5
So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
1 Kings 11:1
Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
Proverbs 2:16-19
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Proverbs 23:27-28
For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.