Proverbs 5:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ Be not devoted to a strange woman, nor embraced in the arms of one not thine own.

¹ Now king Solomon was immoderately fond of women. He had seven hundred wives, princesses; and three hundred concubines; and he took for wives strange women besides Pharao's daughter, women of Moab and Ammon, Syrians, Idumeans, Chettites and Amorites.

¹⁶ and estrange thee from a just determination. ¹⁷ My son, let not evil counsel, who hath forsaken the discipline of youth and hath forgotten the divine covenant, take hold of thee. ¹⁸ For she hath placed her house near death; and her wheels with the earth born near the mansion of the dead. ¹⁹ None who walk by her direction can ever return; nor ever recover the right paths.

²⁴ to keep thee from a married woman; and from the flattering tongue of a strange woman.

⁵ that she may keep thee from a strange and wicked woman, in case she, with alluring words should attack thee.

¹⁴ The mouth of a transgressor is a deep ditch; and he who is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. There are bad ways before a man and he loveth not to avoid them: but he ought to avoid a crooked and bad way.

²⁷ For a strange house is a hogshead full of holes: and a strange well is narrow. ²⁸ For that will quickly perish; and every transgressor shall be destroyed.

³³ When thine eyes behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely.