Proverbs 5:20

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

biblegateway Pro 5:20

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

biblegateway Pro 5:20

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

biblegateway Pro 5:20

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

biblegateway Pro 5:20

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

SABDAweb Pro 5:20

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

bibleoremus Pro 5:20

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

biblegateway Pro 5:20

For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

biblegateway Pro 5:20

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

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.”