Verse List for PROV 5:20

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OET (OET-RV) My son, why would you stagger along with a strange woman, ⇔ ≈ or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman

OET-LV And_for_what will _you _go _astray my _son _of_my with_a _strange_woman and_will _you _embrace the_bosom _of a _foreign_woman.

ULT And why would you stagger, my son, with a strange woman, ⇔ or embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?

UST My son, you should never be exhilarated by an adulterous woman! ⇔  You should never passionately caress an immoral woman!

BSB & MSB Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, ⇔  or embrace the bosom of a stranger?[fn]

OEB No OEB PROV book available

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

NET But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, ⇔ and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

LSV And why do you magnify yourself,
My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

FBV Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?

T4T My son, do not be [RHQ] captivated/charmed by an immoral woman! ⇔  Do not fondle the breasts of another man’s wife!

LEB • Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,
• and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

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

Moff Why be ravished with a loose creature, ⇔  and embrace the bosom of another woman?

JPS Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?

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

DRA Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

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

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

RV For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
(For why shouldest/should thou/you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?)

SLT And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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

KJB-1769 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
(And why wilt/will thou/you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?)

KJB-1611 And why wilt thou, my sonne, be rauisht with a strange woman, and imbrace the bosome of a stranger?
(And why wilt/will thou/you, my son, be rauisht with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?)

Bshps Why wylt thou my sonne haue pleasure in a straunge woman, and embrace the bosome of a straunger?
(Why wilt/will thou/you my son have pleasure in a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?)

Gnva For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?
(For why shouldest/should thou/you delight, my son, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?)

Cvdl My sonne, why wilt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosome of another woma?
(My son, why wilt/will thou/you have pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosom of another woma?)

Wycl Mi sone, whi art thou disseyued of an alien womman; and art fostrid in the bosum of an othere?
(My son, why art thou/you deceived of an alien/foreign(er) woman; and art fostrid in the bosom of anothere?)

Luth Mein Kind, warum willst du dich an der Fremden ergötzen und herzest dich mit einer andern?
(My child, why want you(sg) you/yourself at/to the/of_the strangers delight and embrace you/yourself with one/a change/modify?)

ClVg Quare seduceris, fili mi, ab aliena, et foveris in sinu alterius?
(Why seduceris, son my, away foreign, and foveris in/into/on pocket another’s?)

UHB וְ⁠לָ֤⁠מָּה תִשְׁגֶּ֣ה בְנִ֣⁠י בְ⁠זָרָ֑ה וּ֝⁠תְחַבֵּ֗ק חֵ֣ק נָכְרִיָּֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Μὴ πολὺς ἴσθι πρὸς ἀλλοτρίαν, μηδὲ συνέχου ἀγκάλαις τῆς μὴ ἰδίας.

BrTr Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.