Proverbs 5:20KJV

Protestant Bible · KJV · Verse 20 of 23

"And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"
— Proverbs 5:20

In context

18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

19the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21For the ways of man before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.