Proverbs 5:20
And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Updated King James 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 ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:1But 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 you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Proverbs 23:33Yours eyes shall behold strange women, and yours heart shall utter perverse things.
Malachi 2:16For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that all of you 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 →