Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do 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.

A Conservative Version

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

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.

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 And being found he shall recompense seven fold; he shall give all the substance of his house. 32 He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it. 33 A blow and contempt shall he find; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Cross References

Proverbs 7:7

And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,

Proverbs 7:22-23

He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Genesis 39:9-10

Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God?

Genesis 41:39

And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, After that God showed thee all this, none discerning and wise as thou.

Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Proverbs 2:18-19

For her house sunk down to death, and her tracks to the shades.

Proverbs 5:22-23

His iniquities shall take the unjust one, and with the cords of his sins shall he be held fast.

Proverbs 8:36

And he sinning against me did violence to his soul: all hating me loved death.

Proverbs 9:4

Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him,

Proverbs 9:16-18

Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,

Ecclesiastes 7:25-26

I went round about, I and my heart., to know, and to examine, and to search out wisdom and understanding, and to know the injustice of folly, and the folly of wickedness:

Jeremiah 5:8

They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear:

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel?

Hosea 4:11-12

Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.

Hosea 13:9

O Israel, thou didst destroy thyself; but in me in thy help.

Romans 1:22-24

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

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