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Proverbs 5:18-23 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 18 | Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. | Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, | May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. | |
| 19 | A loving doe and a graceful deer, let her breasts satisfy you at all times—may you wander in her love continually! | a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. | A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love. | |
| 20 | So why do you wander, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman? | Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress? | Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman? | |
| 21 | For the ways of man are in front of the eyes of YHWH, and all his paths He weighs. | For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths. | For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths. | |
| 22 | His own iniquities capture a wicked one, and he is held with the cords of his sin. | The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. | The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast. | |
| 23 | He shall die for lack of discipline, and in the abundance of his folly he shall go astray. | He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. | For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly. | |
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