Proverbs 5:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ For why should you, my son, Be captivated by a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

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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 Sovereign Shelomoh loved many foreign women in addition to the daughter of Pharaoh: Mo’aḇ

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by יהוה  falls in there.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 6:24

To guard you against an evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:5

To guard you against the strange woman, Against the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Malachi 2:14

And you said, “Why?” Because יהוה  has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

Malachi 2:16

“For I hate divorce,” said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ