Proverbs 5:20
Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.
LXX2012 (US 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 the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1+ 11:1 This verse, or part verse is not numbered in Brenton's text. Verse 1 is in the position below, following verse 3. And king Solomon was a lover of women. + 11:1 Note that the verses between this point and the beginning of verse 9 are in the order chosen by Brenton, and are marked thus: 1) etc. as they are numbered by Brenton.
Proverbs 6:24to keep you continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
Proverbs 23:33Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.
Malachi 2:16But if you should hate your wife and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover your thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take you⌃ heed to your spirit, and forsake them not,
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 →