Proverbs 6:32

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

American King James Version (AKJV)

But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

American Standard Version (ASV)

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

Webster's Revision

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

World English Bible

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

English Revised Version (ERV)

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.

Clarke's Proverbs 6:32 Bible Commentary

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 neighbor.

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.