Proverbs 30:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wickedness.

American Standard Version (1901)

So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

Common English Bible

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and she says, “I’ve done nothing wrong!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Such is the way also of an adulterous woman, who eats, and wiping her mouth, says: "I have done no evil."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Such is also the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

Proverbs 30:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:4

So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself after her period.) Then she returned to her house.

Proverbs 30:21

Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:

Proverbs 5:6

She does not keep straight to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, “I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals”? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done: a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,