Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
New American Standard Bible
He who would
King James Version
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Holman Bible
whoever does so destroys himself.
International Standard Version
Whoever commits adultery with a woman is out of his mind; by doing so he corrupts his own soul.
A Conservative Version
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.
Amplified
But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks common sense and sound judgment and an understanding [of moral principles];
He who would destroy his soul does it.
Bible in Basic English
He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
Darby Translation
Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Julia Smith Translation
He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it.
King James 2000
But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks {sense}, he destroys himself who does it.
Modern King James verseion
Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman, he is a fool: and destroyeth his own soul.
NET Bible
A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.
New Heart English Bible
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
The Emphasized Bible
He that committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh sense, A destroyer of his own life, is he that doeth it;
Webster
But whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
World English Bible
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Youngs Literal Translation
He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
Themes
Adultery » Adulterers and adulteresses
Destruction » Who destroys their own soul
Understanding » Who is void of understanding
Topics
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Leb
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman
31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house. 32 He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul. 33 Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Cross References
Proverbs 7:7
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 7:22-23
He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 39:9-10
he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis 41:39
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou:
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Proverbs 2:18-19
For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
Proverbs 5:22-23
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 9:4
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Proverbs 9:16-18
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Ecclesiastes 7:25-26
I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things , and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.
Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Hosea 4:11-12
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
Hosea 13:9
It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against me, against thy help.
Romans 1:22-24
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,