Proverbs 5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:2-3

Proverbs 5:2-3. That thy lips may keep knowledge— The LXX read, The understanding of my lips commands thee; have nothing to do with a strange woman; for honey distilleth from the lips of a woman who is a fornicator, which may for a time fatten thy cheeks. See Wall and Houbigant. read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:6

Proverbs 5:6. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life— Houbigant renders this, She is far from following the way of life: her steps wander whither she herself knoweth not: which is very like the Chaldee. The design of the wise man seems to be, to point out the inconstancy, irregularity, and wickedness, of the strange woman's life. Her ways are inconstant; she is not attached to her husband, or to any one man, but abandons herself to the first comer; has neither knowledge, wisdom, nor... read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:9

Proverbs 5:9. Lest thou give thine honour unto others— The word others אחרים acheirim, denoted, among the Israelites, strangers; aliens from the true religion, and also its enemies. I suppose it has respect to selling into slavery, by which a person puts himself under the yoke of strangers. It was a great crime to sell one's self; a greater to do so to strangers and aliens from the worship of the true God. He who cleaves to an adulteress sells himself from the family of God, and delivers... read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:11

Proverbs 5:11. And thou mourn at the last— When in the decline of life thou shalt be without strength, without vigour, without children, without support, without resource. We must recollect the great desire which the Hebrews had for children and a numerous family, in order fully to conceive the remorse of the man who finds himself, through his own fault, incapacitated from having legitimate children; of a man used to debauchery, and surrounded with the evils which are the natural consequences... read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:14

Proverbs 5:14. I was almost in all evil— I am plunged into almost all evils in the midst of the assembly of my people. Calmet. Houbigant renders it, I am well nigh become the most miserable of all those amongst whom I live. "What a wretched man am I! There is scarcely any misery in respect of estate, or body, or soul, into which I am not already plunged." The words also are, and may be well rendered thus, In a moment I am come into almost all evil. "In how little a time, and for what short and... read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:15

Proverbs 5:15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern— The allegory here begun is carried on through several verses. It has been differently understood; but the interpretation which seems most generally followed, is that of those who conceive that the wise man here subjoins a commendation of matrimony and the chaste preservation of the marriage-bed for the propagation of a legitimate offspring, to his dehortation from illegitimate practices and stolen waters; and Schultens observes, that no... read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:17

Proverbs 5:17. Let them be only thine own— Possess them alone: "Love only your wife, and give not to her any occasion, by your irregularity, to charge you with infidelity; guard her in such a manner, that she may not be exposed to the seduction of evil men." read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:18

Proverbs 5:18. Let thy fountain be blessed— That your wife may be fruitful, and God may bless you with a numerous posterity. The next clause very clearly points out the meaning of the metaphor. read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:19

Proverbs 5:19. Let her be as the loving hind— Bishop Patrick observes, that the wise man describes allegorically the felicities of the nuptial state under the comparison of a domestic fountain, where a man may quench his natural thirst, and from whence streams, that is, children, may be derived to serve the public good; and, secondly, under the comparison of a young hind, and a roe, which naturalists have observed to be very fond creatures, and which were usually kept by the greater persons in... read more

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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:21

Proverbs 5:21. For the ways of a man are before the Lord— See Psalms 139:0. Instead of pondereth, in the next clause, we may read measureth. read more

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