Proverbs 5:20
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.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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 thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Read in contextProverbs 6:24
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Read in contextProverbs 23:27–28
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Read in context1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
Read in contextProverbs 23:33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Read in contextProverbs 22:14
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Read in contextProverbs 2:16–19
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
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