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Proverbs 5:20-22
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Proverbs 5:20-22
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Proverbs 5:20-22
King James Version
Proverbs 5:20-22
King James Version
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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Proverbs 5:20-22
New King James Version
Proverbs 5:20-22
New King James Version
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by (A)an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
21 (B)For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He [a]ponders all his paths.
22 (C)His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:21 observes, lit. weighs
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