Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

New American Standard Bible

The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense;
He who would destroy himself does it.

King James Version

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Holman Bible

The one who commits adultery lacks sense;
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.

American Standard Version

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
with a woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 18

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 146

Context Readings

Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman

31 And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth. 32 He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it. 33 A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,


Cross References

Proverbs 7:7

And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

Proverbs 7:22-23

He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

Hebrews 13:4

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Genesis 39:9-10

none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou art his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? -- then have I sinned against God.'

Genesis 41:39

and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

Exodus 20:14

'Thou dost not commit adultery.

Proverbs 2:18-19

For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

Proverbs 5:22-23

His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

Proverbs 8:36

And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

Proverbs 9:4

Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

Proverbs 9:16-18

Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,

Ecclesiastes 7:25-26

I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

Jeremiah 5:8

Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 4:11-12

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

Hosea 13:9

And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.

Romans 1:22-24

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

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