Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another 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?
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?
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?
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 Let her be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe: let her breasts alway satisfy thee, and hold thee ever content with her love. 20 My son, why wilt thou have pleasure in a harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woman? 21 For every man's ways are open in the sight of the LORD, and he pondereth all their goings.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:24
that they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the harlot:
Proverbs 7:5
That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.
1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many outlandish women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites,
Proverbs 2:16-19
That thou mayest be delivered also from the strange woman, and from her that is not thine own: which giveth sweet words,
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of a harlot is a deep pit; wherein he falleth that the LORD is angry withal.
Proverbs 23:27-28
For a whore is a deep grave, and a harlot is a narrow pit.
Proverbs 23:33
So shall thine eyes look unto strange women, and thine heart shall muse upon froward things.