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Proverbs 6:33

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You will be beaten and for ever disgraced,

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Uncontrollable as a flood, you slept with my wife and disgraced my bed. And so you no longer deserve the place of honour.

God dearly loved King Solomon of Israel and made him the greatest king on earth, but Solomon's foreign wives led him into sin.

You are kind, God! Please have pity on me. You are always merciful! Please wipe away my sins.

Let me be happy and joyful! You crushed my bones, now let them celebrate.

But if you go to bed with another man's wife, you will destroy yourself by your own stupidity.

because a jealous husband can be furious and merciless when he takes revenge.