Proverbs 5:20
Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?
Free Bible 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
21For the Lord sees everything people do, the Lord investigates everywhere they go.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh's daughter, there were women from the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
Proverbs 6:24It will protect you from an evil woman and the seductive words of a prostitute.
Proverbs 22:14The seductive words of an immoral woman are a dangerous trap—if the Lord's angry with you, then you'll fall right in.
Proverbs 23:33You'll hallucinate, seeing strange things, and your confused mind will make you say all kinds of craziness.
Malachi 2:16For I hate divorce, says the Lord God of Israel, for it's a violent attack on the wife, says the Lord Almighty. So watch what you do, and don't be unfaithful.
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 →