Proverbs 5:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

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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

And Solomon did that which was net pleasing before the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as David his father.

Proverbs 22:14

1 That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.

Proverbs 23:33

A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant.

Proverbs 5:3

0 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,

Proverbs 6:24

1 And if he be taken he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.

Proverbs 7:5

2 Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.

Malachi 2:14

And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:16

For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we return?