Proverbs 5:20 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 5:20

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Clement of Alexandria

The Stromata Book 1 (215)

When Scripture says, "Do not keep going steady with a foreign woman," it is advising us to make use of secular education but not to settle there permanently. Each generation received beneficial gifts at the appropriate points, but they were in preparation for the Word of the Lord.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pr 5:15, 18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pr 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pr 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְלָ֤מָּה	ve.La.mah	and <to> why?	H4100 →
תִשְׁגֶּ֣ה	tish.Geh	will you go astray	H7686 →
בְנִ֣י	ve.Ni	O son my	H1121 →
בְזָרָ֑ה	ve.za.Rah	with a strange [woman]	H2114 →
וּ֝תְחַבֵּ֗ק	u.te.cha.Bek	<so> may you embrace?	H2263 →
חֵ֣ק	chek	[the] bosom of	H2436 →
נָכְרִיָּֽה׃	na.khe.ri.Yah	a foreign [woman]	H5237 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
  And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 23:27
  For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- Proverbs 6:24–29
  to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Through
Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
leads to
- Proverbs 2:16
  It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 5:3
  Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 7:5
  that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
leads to
- Proverbs 6:24
  to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 17:17
  He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

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04Related verses

06About Proverbs

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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