20 For why shouldest thou [a]delight, my son, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21 For the ways of man are before the [b]eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his paths.

22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his own sin.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:20 Or, go astray with a stranger?
  2. Proverbs 5:21 He declareth that except man do join to his wife both in heart and in outward conversation, that he shall not escape the judgments of God.

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