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Proverbs 5:20

American Standard Version

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

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Proverbs 5:20 in other translations

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

Proverbs 5:20 · World English Bible

Proverbs 5:20 in context

  1. 18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
  2. 19As a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
  3. 20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
  4. 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
  5. 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.