Catholic Public Domain Version
"Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another? "
— Proverbs 5:20, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”
“For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? ”
“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?”
Hold them for yourself alone, and do not let strangers be partakers with you.
Let your spring be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth:
a beloved doe and most pleasing fawn. Let her breasts inebriate you at all times. Be delighted continually by her love.
Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
He shall die, for he has not held to discipline. And by the multitude of his foolishness, he shall be deceived.