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Proverbs 5:18-20 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 18 | May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife-- | 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, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always. | 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 | But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different 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? | |
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