Proverbs 5:20

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

In context

19A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

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