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20 Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman,
    and embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21 For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways,[a]
    and all his paths he examines.
22 His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer,
    and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:21 Literally “the ways of man/humankind”

20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
    Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

21 For your ways are in full view(A) of the Lord,
    and he examines(B) all your paths.(C)
22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;(D)
    the cords of their sins hold them fast.(E)

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