Proverbs 5:20 - Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Why, my son, be captivated by a seducing woman? Why embrace a foreigner’s bosom?

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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 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 11:1

Now King Solomon loved so many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites—

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things. Your heart will utter perverse things.

Proverbs 5:3

For a seducing woman’s lips drip honey and her mouth is smoother than oil.

Proverbs 6:24

keeping you from the immoral woman, from a wayward wife’s smooth tongue.

Proverbs 7:5

They will keep you from a seducing woman, from the foreign woman with her seductive speech.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.

Malachi 2:16

“For I hate divorce,” —says Adonai the God of Israel— “and the one who covers his garment with injustice,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot. So protect your spirit— do not act treacherously.