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Proverbs 5:20

World English Bible

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

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American Standard Version

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

Christian Standard Bible

Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman?

English Standard Version

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?

New International Version

Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

New King James Version

For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

New Living Translation

Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman, or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?