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King James Version

Proverbs 6:32

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Adultery;   Destruction;   Understanding;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Jealousy;   Steal;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Vengeance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heart;   Lack;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adultery;   Chastity;   Tanḥum B. ḥiyya;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The one who commits adultery lacks sense;whoever does so destroys himself.
Hebrew Names Version
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
English Standard Version
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
New Century Version
A man who takes part in adultery has no sense; he will destroy himself.
New English Translation
A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.
Amplified Bible
But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks common sense and sound judgment and an understanding [of moral principles]; He who would destroy his soul does it.
New American Standard Bible
One who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself commits it.
World English Bible
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
Legacy Standard Bible
The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking a heart of wisdom;He who would destroy his soul does it.
Berean Standard Bible
But he who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
Contemporary English Version
But if you go to bed with another man's wife, you will destroy yourself by your own stupidity.
Complete Jewish Bible
He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Darby Translation
Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Easy-to-Read Version
But a man who commits adultery is a fool. He brings about his own destruction.
George Lamsa Translation
But he who commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding, and he destroys his own soul.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, he destroys himself who does it.
Literal Translation
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; he who does it is a destroyer of his own soul.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But who so comitteth aduoutrie with a woma, he is a foole, and bryngeth his life to destruccion.
American Standard Version
He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
Bible in Basic English
He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He that committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
King James Version (1611)
But who so committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: hee that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But whoso committeth adultrie with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: and he that doth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the adulterer through want of sense procures destruction to his soul.
English Revised Version
He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But he that is avouter; schal leese his soule, for the pouert of herte.
Update Bible Version
He that commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He who does it destroys his own soul.
Webster's Bible Translation
[But] whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
New King James Version
Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; He who does so destroys his own soul.
New Living Translation
But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys himself.
New Life Bible
He who does sex sins with a woman does not think well. He who does it is destroying himself.
New Revised Standard
But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh sense, A destroyer of his own life, is he that doeth it;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
Revised Standard Version
He who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
Young's Literal Translation
He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself does it.

Contextual Overview

20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lacketh: Proverbs 7:7, Genesis 39:9, Genesis 39:10, Genesis 41:39, Ecclesiastes 7:25, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Jeremiah 5:8, Jeremiah 5:21, Romans 1:22-24

understanding: Heb. heart, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 4:12

destroyeth: Proverbs 2:18, Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 5:23, Proverbs 7:22, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 8:36, Proverbs 9:16-18, Ezekiel 18:31, Hosea 13:9, Hebrews 13:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:8 - refused Deuteronomy 5:18 - General 2 Samuel 12:10 - hast taken Job 24:15 - eye Job 34:10 - understanding Proverbs 9:4 - General Proverbs 10:13 - understanding Proverbs 12:11 - he that followeth Proverbs 29:24 - hateth Hosea 7:11 - without Matthew 5:27 - Thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman,.... Which is a greater degree of theft than the former, it being the stealing of another man's wife;

lacketh understanding; or "an heart" t; the thief lacks bread, and therefore steals, but this man lacks wisdom, and therefore acts so foolish a part; the one does it to satisfy hunger, the other a brutish lust;

he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul; is liable to have his life taken away by the husband of the adulteress; so according to Solon's law u the adulterer taken in the act might be killed by the husband: or by the civil magistrate; for according to the law of. Moses he was to die, either to be strangled or stoned, :-; and besides, he not only ruins the natural faculties of his soul, besotting, corrupting, and depraving that, giving his heart to a whore, but brings eternal destruction on it; yet so foolish is he, though it issues in the ruin of his precious soul; "he does this" w, for so the first part of this clause, which stands last in the original text, may be rendered.

t חסר לב "deficit corde", Pagninus, Montanus; "caret corde", Mercerus, Gejerus; so Michaelis. u Plutarch. in Vita Solon. p. 90. w הוא יעשנה "ipse faeiet illud", Montanus; "ipse faciet hoc", so some in Vatablus; "is id faciet, sive facit", Cocceius; "ille facit id", Michaelis; "is patrabit illud", Schultens.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. But whoso committeth adultery — The case understood is that of a married man: he has a wife; and therefore is not in the circumstances of the poor thief, who stole to appease his hunger, having nothing to eat. In this alone the opposition between the two cases is found: the thief had no food, and he stole some; the married man had a wife, and yet went in to the wife of his neighbour.

Destroyeth his own soul. — Sins against his life, for, under the law of Moses, adultery was punished with death; Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22.


 
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