Proverbs 5:20
Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
In Context
21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
Proverbs 6:24They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
Malachi 2:16For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23
Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →