Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
So [is] he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.
New American Standard Bible
Whoever touches her
King James Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Holman Bible
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
International Standard Version
So also is it with someone who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will not remain unpunished.
American Standard Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
Amplified
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
Whoever touches her will not be found innocent or go unpunished.
Bible in Basic English
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
Darby Translation
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Julia Smith Translation
So he going in to his neighbor's wife; all touching upon her shall not be innocent
King James 2000
So is he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
Modern King James verseion
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty.
NET Bible
So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
New Heart English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
The Emphasized Bible
So, he that goeth in unto his neighbour's wife, no man shall be guiltless who toucheth her!
Webster
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
World English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
Youngs Literal Translation
So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman
28 Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched? 29 So [is] he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished. 30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 12:18-19
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou have done to me? Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Genesis 20:4-7
Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, LORD, will thou slay even a righteous nation?
Genesis 26:10-11
And Abimelech said, What is this thou have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou would have brought guiltiness upon us.
Leviticus 20:10
And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
2 Samuel 11:3-4
And David send and inquired after the woman. And he said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.
2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines that he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that thou are abhorred by thy father. Then the hands of all who are with thee will be strong.
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to LORD. Hand in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Jeremiah 5:8-9
They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Ezekiel 22:11
And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another in thee has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.