Proverbs 5:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ Why, my son, would you lose yourself with a forbidden woman or embrace a wayward woman?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, and go astray?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Common English Bible

²⁰ Why, my son, should you lose your senses with a mysterious woman and embrace the breasts of a foreign female?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Why are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?

Proverbs 5:20 Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter:  Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the  Lord will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say absurd things.  ,

Proverbs 5:3

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her words are  smoother than oil,

Proverbs 6:24

They will protect you from an evil woman, from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.

Proverbs 7:5

She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a wayward woman with her flattering talk.

Malachi 2:14

And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness  between you and the wife of your youth,  you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner  and your wife by covenant.

Malachi 2:16

‘If he hates  and divorces his wife,’  says the Lord God of Israel, ‘he  covers his garment with injustice,’  says the Lord of Armies. Therefore, watch yourselves carefully,  and do not act treacherously.