KJV King James Version
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Proverbs 5:20
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
WEB World English Bible
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
ASV American Standard Version
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?
Surrounding context — Proverbs 5
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 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.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.Proverbs 23:33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.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 23:27-28For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.Proverbs 2:16-19To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
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