Text -- Proverbs 5:20 (NET)

5:20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 5:20

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.”