20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
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Commentary on Proverbs 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. 2. To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, Phil. 3:1. Here is,
And all little enough to arm young people against those fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Pro 5:1-14
Here we have,
Pro 5:15-23
Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them.