Proverbs 5:20

Proverbs 5:20 in 10 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 adulteress,

And embrace the breasts 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?

20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,

And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

20For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

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

Why embrace the bosom of another?

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

Why hug a woman who has gone astray?

20So my son, do not let an adulteress deceive you. Do not enjoy the body of another man's wife.

20And why do you magnify yourself, || My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?