Proverbs 5:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Why should you, my son, be intoxicated with an adulterous woman and fondle a loose woman's breast?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

ASV:

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

BBE:

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

DBY:

And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

ERV:

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

JPS:

Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?

WBS:

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

WEB:

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

YLT:

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

Proverbs 5:20 Cross References

XREF:

Proverbs 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey And smoother than oil is her speech;

Proverbs 6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:5 That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 23:27 For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

5:15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish as to choose the way of sin, are justly left of God to themselves, to go on in the way to destruction.

CONC:

Adulteress Adventuress Alien Arms Bosom Captivated Embrace Exhilarated Foreigner Infatuated Loose Magnify Man's Ravished Shouldest Strange Stranger Thyself Wife Wilt

Adulteress Adventuress Alien Arms Bosom Captivated Embrace Exhilarated Foreigner Infatuated Loose Magnify Ravished Shouldest Strange Stranger Thyself Way Wife Wilt

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