Proverbs 5:20

But why should you be captivated, ¹  my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? ² 

1Ki 11:1; Pr 2:16-19; Pr 6:24; Pr 7:5; Pr 22:14; Pr 23:27,28,33

¹ tn In the interrogative clause the imperfect has a deliberative nuance.

² tn Heb “foreigner” (so ASV, NASB), but this does not mean that the woman is non-Israelite. This term describes a woman who is outside the moral boundaries of the covenant community – she is another man’s wife, but since she acts with moral abandonment she is called “foreign.”