Proverbs 5:20
18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- KJV
- And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- WEB
- For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
- ASV
- For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
- DARBY
- And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- BLB
- So why do you wander, my son, with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreign woman?
- ÅB
- Hvorfor, min sønn, skulle du da være drukken av attrå etter en annen manns hustru og favne en fremmed kvinnes barm?
- OTB
- Hvorfor, min sønn, skulle du bli beruset av en utro kvinne, og omfavne en fremmed kvinnes barm?
- B1930
- Hvorfor, min sønn, skulde du da være drukken av attrå efter en annen manns hustru og favne en fremmed kvinnes barm?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
Read in contextProverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Read in contextProverbs 23:27–28
For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Read in context1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
Read in contextProverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
Read in contextProverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
Read in contextProverbs 2:16–19
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
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