Proverbs 5:19-21
Good News Translation
19 pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love. 20 Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife? 21 The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.
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Proverbs 5:19-21
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?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Proverbs 5:19-21
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]
21 For (E)a man's ways are (F)before the eyes of the Lord,
and he (G)ponders[c] all his paths.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20
- Proverbs 5:20 Hebrew a foreign woman
- Proverbs 5:21 Or makes level
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