Proverbs 5:20

Proverbs 5:20 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

20Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?

Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

20For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an 5:20 Lit strange womanadulteress,

And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?

20For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress

And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

20Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman

And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?

20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress,

or embrace the bosom of a stranger?5:20 Or a foreign woman or another man’s wife

20My son, why be captured by another man’s wife?

Why hug a woman who has gone astray?