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Proverbs 5:20
New English Translation
Proverbs 5:20
New English Translation
20 But why should you be captivated,[a] my son, by an adulteress,
and embrace the bosom of a different woman?[b]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:20 tn In the interrogative clause the imperfect has a deliberative nuance.
- Proverbs 5:20 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.”
Proverbs 5:20
New International Version
Proverbs 5:20
New International Version
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
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