Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.
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.
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.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman
31 Yet if he is found, he shall restore sevenfold. He shall give all the substance of his house. 32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it. 33 Wounds and dishonor he shall 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 goes after her straightaway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Genesis 39:9-10
He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Genesis 41:39
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shown thee all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou.
Exodus 20:14
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Proverbs 2:18-19
(for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;
Proverbs 5:22-23
His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.
Proverbs 9:4
He who is simple, let him turn in here. As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
Proverbs 9:16-18
He who is simple, let him turn in here. And as for him who is void of understanding, she says 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; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:
Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which 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 are] against me, against thy help.
Romans 1:22-24
Professing to be wise, they became foolish,