World English Bible
"For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?"
— Proverbs 5:20, World English 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? ”
“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 yourself alone, not for strangers with you.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.