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Proverbs 5:19-20
English Standard Version
Proverbs 5:19-20
English Standard Version
19 a lovely (A)deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts (B)fill you at all times with delight;
be intoxicated[a] always in her love.
20 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with (C)a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of (D)an adulteress?[b]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
- Proverbs 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman
Proverbs 5:19-20
New International Version
Proverbs 5:19-20
New International Version
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(A)—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
Proverbs 5:19-20
King James Version
Proverbs 5:19-20
King James Version
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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