Proverbs 5

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 5:22

iniquities. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44 . take = trap or entrap him. wicked = a lawless man. Hebrew. rasha, '. App-44 . he shall be holden. Illustrations: Saul (1 Samuel 18:8 , 1 Samuel 18:9 . Compare Proverbs 24:16 , Proverbs 24:17 ; Proverbs 26:21 ; Proverbs 28:5-20 ); Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:16-19 . Ezekiel 22:31 ); Ahithophel (2 Samuel 17:23 ); Judas (John 12:6 . Matthew 26:47-49 ). Compare Proverbs 23:29 , Proverbs 23:35 . sins. Hebrew. chata;. App-44 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 5:23

die without instruction. Illustration: Saul (1 Chronicles 10:13 , 1 Chronicles 10:14 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 5:1

Jamieson's short summary of this chapter is: "Here is a warning against the seductive arts of wicked women, enforced by considering the blessings and advantages of chastity, and the miserable end of the wicked,"[1]Walls subdivided the chapter as follows:(1) the teacher's appeal for strict attention (Proverbs 5:1-2),(2) a description of the loose woman (Proverbs 5:3-6),(3) an injunction to avoid her (Proverbs 5:7-8),(4) a warning of that which befalls her victims (Proverbs 5:9-14), a call to... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 5:3

DESCRIPTION OF THE LOOSE WOMAN"For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,And her mouth is smoother than oil.But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,Sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death;Her steps take hold on Sheol;So that she findeth not the level path of life:Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.""The lips of a strange woman" (Proverbs 5:3). "This is any woman who is not thine own, whether Jewess or heathen."[5]"Drop honey" (Proverbs 5:3). This is a metaphor to... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 5:7

AN INJUNCTION TO AVOID THE STRANGE WOMAN"Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me.And depart not from the words of my mouth.Remove thy way far from her,And come not nigh the door of her house."There are some temptations that must be avoided in order to be successfully resisted; and fornication, adultery and related vices are in that category. The New Testament echoes the same admonition. "Flee youthful lusts" (2 Timothy 2:22). "Obedience to this injunction might very well require that we should... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 5:9

WARNING OF WHAT BEFALLS VIOLATORS OF THIS LAW"Lest thou give thine honor unto others,And thy years unto the cruel.Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,And thy labors be in the house of an alien.And thou mourn at thy latter end,When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,And say, How have I hated instruction,And my heart despised reproof;Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers,Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!I was well-nigh in all evilIn the midst of the assembly and... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 5:15

THE CALL TO CHERISH HOLY LOVE IN MARRIAGE"Drink waters out of thine own cistern,And running waters out of thine own well.Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,And streams of waters in the streets?Let them be for thyself alone,And not for strangers with thee.Let thy fountain be blessed;And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.As a loving hind and a pleasant doe,Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;And be thou ravished always with her love.""Here the teacher passes to positive instructions on... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Proverbs 5:20

A REMINDER THAT ADULTERY IS A SIN AGAINST GOD"For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah;And he maketh level all his paths.His own iniquities shall take the wicked,And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.He shall die for lack of instruction;And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.""Why ... be ravished with a strange woman" (Proverbs 5:20)? In the previous verse the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5

CHAP. V. Solomon exhorteth to the study of wisdom; he sheweth the mischief of fornication and riot: he exhorteth to contentedness, liberality, and chastity. The wicked are overtaken with their own sins. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:1

Proverbs 5:1. My son attend, &c.— There being nothing to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to their fleshly desires, and nothing so pernicious to them as to converse with harlots, the wise man renews his cautions against impure lusts, as destructive of true wisdom; and with repeated entreaties begs attention to so weighty an argument, which here he prosecutes more largely, and presses not only with singular elegance, but powerful reasoning. The principal things to be learned... read more

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