Other translations
New Catholic Bible
If you succumb to the enticements of base desires, you will become the laughingstock of your enemies.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughingstock of your enemies.
Good News Translation®
If you allow yourself to satisfy your every desire, you will be a joke to your enemies.
Wycliffe Bible
If thou givest to thy soul the covetousnesses thereof [or If thou give to thy soul his lusts], it shall make thee into joy to thine enemies.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughingstock of your enemies.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughingstock of your enemies.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughing-stock of your enemies.
Common English Bible © 2011
If you cater to your desires, you will become a laughingstock to your enemies.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
If you allow yourself to satisfy your passions, they will make you the laughingstock of your enemies.
Revised Standard Version
If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughingstock of your enemies.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
If you allow your soul to take pleasure in base desire, it will make you the laughing-stock of your enemies.