Proverbios 5:20

20 Hijo mío, ¿por qué dejarte cautivar por una mujer inmoral
o acariciar los pechos de una mujer promiscua?

Proverbios 5:20 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
&c.] Or "err with her" ^F25; after all those inconveniences and miseries that follow upon a conversation with a harlot, and all those advantages of a marriage state set before thee; why wilt thou be, so foolish and mad as to have a fondness for an harlot and dote upon her, and neglect entering into a marriage state, or forsake the wife of youth? and yet though things are so clearly stated and aptly represented, and the expostulation made in the most tender and affectionate manner; it is suggested as if after all it would not be attended unto, but a harlot be preferred to a wife of youth, a filthy beast to a loving hind, and dirty puddles of water in a ditch to running streams from a well or fountain; and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
that is not thy wife; a description of unlawful love and impure embraces, which are dissuaded from.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 "Errares", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "aberrares", Cocceius.

Proverbios 5:20 In-Context

18 Que tu esposa sea una fuente de bendición para ti.
Alégrate con la esposa de tu juventud.

19 Es una cierva amorosa, una gacela llena de gracia.
Que sus pechos te satisfagan siempre.
Que siempre seas cautivado por su amor.

20 Hijo mío, ¿por qué dejarte cautivar por una mujer inmoral
o acariciar los pechos de una mujer promiscua?

21 Pues el Señor
ve con claridad lo que hace el hombre,
examina cada senda que toma.

22 Un hombre malvado queda preso por sus propios pecados;
son cuerdas que lo atrapan y no lo sueltan.