Proverbs 5:20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man's wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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Proverbs 2:16
To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;

Proverbs 5:3
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Proverbs 6:24
To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.

Proverbs 23:27
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish as to choose the way of sin, are justly left of God to themselves, to go on in the way to destruction.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. loving … roe—other figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals.

breasts—(Compare So 1:13; Eze 23:3, 8).

ravished—literally, "intoxicated," that is, fully satisfied.