Proverbs 31:3
Do not exhaust your energy having sex [EUP] with women to whom you are not married, with women who ruin kings by having sex with them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
In Context
2You are my son; I gave birth to you [RHQ]; you are the son that God gave me in answer to my prayers.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:17And he must not have a lot of wives, because if he did that, they would turn him [SYN] away from worshiping only Yahweh. And he must not acquire a lot of silver and gold.
Nehemiah 13:26I said to them, “Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned [RHQ] as a result of marrying foreign women. He was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him, and caused him to become the king of all the Israeli people, but his foreign wives caused even him to sin.
Proverbs 7:26She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 31:2-10
Maternal Counsels to King Lemuel. 1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. 6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto… Read the whole commentary →