Proverbs 5:20
Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
21The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many foreign women, including the daughter of Pharaoh, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Idumea, and of Sidon, and of the Hittites.
Proverbs 6:24So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.
Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.
Malachi 2:16If you would hold hatred, dismiss her, says the Lord, the God of Israel. But iniquity will cover his garment, says the Lord of hosts. Preserve your spirit, and do not be willing to despise.
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 →