American Standard Version
"For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? "
— Proverbs 5:20, American Standard Version
“And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”
“For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?”
“But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?”
“Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?”
“Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?”
“And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”
Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.
Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.