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Proverbs 6:32

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; He who would destroy himself does it.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— [But] whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— He that committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh sense, A destroyer of his own life, is he that doeth it;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— [But] who so committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: hee that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But he who commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding, and he destroys his own soul.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— But the adulterer through want of sense procures destruction to his soul.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
[But] whoso committeth adultery 5003
{5003} Prime
נָאַף
na'aph
{naw-af'}
A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively to apostatize.
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
with a woman 802
{0802} Prime
אִשָּׁה
'ishshah
{ish-shaw'}
The first form is the feminine of H0376 or H0582; the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H0582).
lacketh 2638
{2638} Prime
חָסֵר
chacer
{khaw-sare'}
From H2637; lacking; hence without.
understanding: 3820
{3820} Prime
לֵב
leb
{labe}
A form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.
he x1931
(1931) Complement
הוּא
huw'
{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
[that] doeth 6213
{6213} Prime
עָשָׂה
`asah
{aw-saw'}
A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
it destroyeth 7843
{7843} Prime
שָׁחַת
shachath
{shaw-khath'}
A primitive root; to decay, that is, (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively).
z8688
<8688> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Participle (See H8813)
Count - 857
his own soul. 5315
{5315} Prime
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Proverbs 6:32

_ _ lacketh understanding — or, “heart”; destitute of moral principle and prudence.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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lacketh:

Proverbs 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Genesis 39:9-10 [There is] none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou [art] his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? ... And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, [or] to be with her.
Genesis 41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as thou [art]:
Ecclesiastes 7:25-26 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness: ... And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Jeremiah 5:8 They were [as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Romans 1:22-24 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, ... Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

understanding:
Heb. heart,
Hosea 4:11-12 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. ... My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

destroyeth:

Proverbs 2:18-19 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. ... None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Proverbs 5:22-23 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. ... He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Proverbs 7:22-23 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; ... Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
Proverbs 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 9:16-18 Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, ... But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there; [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Hosea 13:9 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me [is] thine help.
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Gn 39:9; 41:39. Pv 2:18; 5:22; 7:7, 22; 8:36; 9:16. Ec 7:25. Jr 5:8, 21. Ezk 18:31. Ho 4:11; 13:9. Ro 1:22. He 13:4.

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