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20 But why should you be captivated,[a] my son, by an adulteress,
and embrace the bosom of a different woman?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:20 tn In the interrogative clause the imperfect has a deliberative nuance.
  2. Proverbs 5:20 tn Heb “foreigner” (so ASV, NASB), but this does not mean that the woman is non-Israelite. This term describes a woman who is outside the moral boundaries of the covenant community—she is another man’s wife, but since she acts with moral abandonment she is called “foreign.”

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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