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Proverbs 5:20

What does Proverbs 5:20 mean?

A plain-English look at Proverbs 5:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.19Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

v.20This passage

v.21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 6:24

    To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

  • Proverbs 23:27

    For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

  • 1 Kings 11:1

    Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

  • Proverbs 22:14

    The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

  • Proverbs 2:16

    To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

  • Proverbs 23:33

    Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

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