Proverbs 30:20
Good News Translation
This is how an unfaithful wife acts: she commits adultery, takes a bath, and says, "But I haven't done anything wrong!"

New Revised Standard Version
This is the way of an adulteress: she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Contemporary English Version
An unfaithful wife says, "Sleeping with another man is as natural as eating."

New American Bible
This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats, wipes her mouth, and says, “I have done no wrong.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.

Proverbs 7:13-23 I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows. . . .

Numbers 5:11-30 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: . . .

Context
The Words of Agur
19The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man in youth. 20Such also is the way of an adulterous woman, who eateth and wipeth her mouth, and saith: I have done no evil.21By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.…
Cross References
Proverbs 5:6
Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 30:21
By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear.

Proverbs 30:19
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