Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
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)?
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?
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 [She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually. 20 Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? 21 For before the eyes of Yahweh [are] {human ways}, and all his paths he examines.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:24
[in order] to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of [the] tongue of {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 7:5
[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.
1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite;
Proverbs 2:16-19
[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,
Proverbs 22:14
A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.
Proverbs 23:27-28
For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.
Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.