Proverbs 5:20
World English Bible (WEB)
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
In context
18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19 A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Proverbs 5:20 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
- KJV King James Version
- And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- 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?