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

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.

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.

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 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,

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