Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
Proverbs 5:20 - American Standard Version 2015 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,\par\tab And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a stranger? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, and go astray? American Standard Version (1901) For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? Common English Bible Why, my son, should you lose your senses with a mysterious woman and embrace the breasts of a foreign female? 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? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another? |
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit;\par\tab He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things,\par\tab And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,\par\tab And her mouth is smoother than oil:
To keep thee from the evil woman,\par\tab From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman,\par\tab From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.\par