Verse Comparison: Proverbs 5:20
American Standard Version
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Amplified® Bible
Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, {and} go astray?
Contemporary English Version
Don't go crazy over a woman who is unfaithful to her own husband!
Darby English Version
And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Good News Bible
Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?
King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
New American Standard Bible
For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
New International Version
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?
New King James Version
For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For why should you, my son, become enraptured with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Revised Standard Version
Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
Young's Literal Translation
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?