For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
Parallel translations
- KJV And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- BSB Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- ESV Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
- NKJV For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
- NASB For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, And embrace the breasts of a foreigner?
- NLT Why be captivated, my son, by an immoral woman, or fondle the breasts of a promiscuous woman?
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Prov 6:24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
- Prov 7:5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
- Prov 23:27–28For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
- Prov 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
- 1 Kgs 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
- Prov 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.
- Prov 2:16–19To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
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