Proverbs 5:20

WEB

²⁰For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

KJV

²⁰And why wilt thou, my son^[+], be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

BSB

²⁰Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

FBV

²⁰Why, my son, become intoxicated with an immoral woman? Why embrace the breasts of a woman who acts like a prostitute?

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Extra References

Proverbs 7:5

⁵that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 6:24

²⁴to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Proverbs 23:33

³³Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

1 Kings 11:1

¹Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,

Proverbs 23:27-28

²⁷For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well. ²⁸Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Proverbs 22:14

¹⁴The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.

¹⁶to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, ¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; ¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits. ¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.