Proverbs 5:20 (BSB)

Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

From Proverbs 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 5:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 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. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have prevented.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 5:20: 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...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 5:18-20: Pro 5:18-20 With Pro 5:18 is introduced anew the praise of conjugal love. These three verses, Pro 5:18-21, have the same course of thought as Pro 5:15-17. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 The lovely hind and the graceful gazelle - May her bosom always charm thee; In her love mayest thou delight thyself evermore.