NET Bible
"But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?"
— Proverbs 5:20, NET Bible
“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?”
“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 yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–
a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD’s eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person’s paths.
The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.