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Proverbs 5:20
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20
For
why
should you, my
son
, be
exhilarated
with an
1
adulteress
And
embrace
the
bosom
of a
2
foreigner
?
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Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19
As a loving hind and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.
20
For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
21
For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the LORD , And He watches all his paths.
22
His own iniquities will capture the wicked, And he will be held with the cords of his sin.
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2
1.
Proverbs 5:3
2.
Proverbs 2:16
;
Proverbs 6:24
;
Proverbs 7:5
;
Proverbs 23:27
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1
[a].
Lit "strange woman"
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