Proverbes 5:20

Louis Segond

Et pourquoi, mon fils, serais-tu épris d'une étrangère, Et embrasserais-tu le sein d'une inconnue?

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et pourquoi, mon fils, irais-tu errant après l'étrangère, et embrasserais-tu le sein de la foraine?

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et pourquoi, mon fils, t'égarerais-tu après une autre, et embrasserais-tu le sein d'une étrangère?

Darby's French Translation
Et pourquoi, mon fils, serais-tu épris d'une étrangère, et embrasserais-tu le sein de l'étrangère?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

with: Proverbs 2:16-19, Proverbs 6:24, Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 22:14, Proverbs 23:27, Proverbs 23:28, Proverbs 23:33, 1 Kings 11:1

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:6 - thy brother Judges 11:2 - a strange Ezra 10:44 - strange wives Psalms 139:3 - and art acquainted Proverbs 21:15 - destruction Song of Solomon 4:9 - thou hast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,.... Or "err with her" y; 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.

y "Errares", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "aberrares", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Emphasis is laid (see the Proverbs 2:16 note) upon the origin of the beguiler.