Proverbs 5:20
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Revised Version 1895
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, and he maketh level all his paths.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1Now king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the stranger’s tongue.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs 23:33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thine heart shall utter froward things.
Malachi 2:16For I hate putting away, saith the LORD, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not 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 →