Proverbs 5:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?

Proverbs 5:20 Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Malachi 2:16

For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.