Proverbs 5:20

NETBible

But why should you be captivated, 1  my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 2 

NIV ©

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man’s wife?

NASB ©

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

NLT ©

Why be captivated, my son, with an immoral woman, or embrace the breasts of an adulterous woman?

MSG ©

Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a whore? for dalliance with a promiscuous stranger?

BBE ©

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

NRSV ©

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another 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?

KJV
And why wilt thou, my son
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be ravished
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with a strange woman
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and embrace
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the bosom
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of a stranger
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NASB ©
For why
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should you, my son
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, be exhilarated
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with an adulteress
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And embrace
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the bosom
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of a foreigner
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?
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ADV
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A-NSM
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V-PAD-2S
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PREP
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A-ASF
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CONJ
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V-PMD-2S
agkalaiv
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N-DPF
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T-GSF
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ADV
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A-GSF
NET [draft] ITL
But why
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should you be captivated
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, my son
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, by an adulteress
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, and embrace
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the bosom
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of a different woman
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?
HEBREW
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qbxtw
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hrzb
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ynb
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hgst
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hmlw (5:20)
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NETBible

But why should you be captivated, 1  my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 2 

NET Notes

1 tn In the interrogative clause the imperfect has a deliberative nuance.

2 tn Heb “foreigner” (so ASV, NASB), but this does not mean that the woman is non-Israelite. This term describes a woman who is outside the moral boundaries of the covenant community – she is another man’s wife, but since she acts with moral abandonment she is called “foreign.”