Proverbs 5:20
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
In context
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Proverbs 5:20 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- KJV King James Version
- And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- WEB World English Bible
- For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
- ASV American Standard Version
- For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
- DBY Darby Translation
- And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?