Proverbs 30:20

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“This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’”

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BSBPD

“This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“So--the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Proverbs 30:20 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 5:11Then the LORD said to Moses,
  2. 2 Samuel 11:4Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
  3. Proverbs 5:6She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
  4. Proverbs 7:13She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
  5. Jeremiah 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

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