Proverbs 5:20
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress?Why embrace the bosom of another?
New Heart English Bible
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 man are before the eyes of the Lord.He examines all his paths.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
Proverbs 6:24to keep you from the immoral woman,from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit:he who is under the Lord's wrath will fall into it.
Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things,and your mind will imagine confusing things.
Malachi 2:16For I hate divorce," says the Lord, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says the Lord of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.
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 →