Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:8
(8) Remove thy way . . .—The great safeguard in such temptations, as all moralists with one mouth advise, is flight. read more
Proverbs 5
Charles John Ellicott
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:9
(9) Thine honour.—Rather, freshness, vigour.Thy years.—The best years of thy life.Unto the cruel.—That is the temptress herself, or her hangers-on and associates, whose sole idea is plunder. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:11
(11) When thy flesh and thy body are consumed.—Ruin of health has followed ruin of property. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:12
(12) How have I hated instruction.—The last stage of misery is the remorse which comes too late. (Comp. Matthew 25:30.) read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:14
(14) I was almost in all evil . . .—Rather, I had almost fallen into every sin: I was so infatuated that I might have committed any sin, and that openly before all. Or, I might have been visited with extremest punishment at the hands of the congregation, death by stoning (Leviticus 20:10, John 8:5). The offender’s eyes are now opened, and he shudders at the thought of the still greater troubles into which he might, in his infatuation, have fallen. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:15-20
(15-20) Drink waters out of thine own cistern . . .—In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords as compared with the pleasures of sin.Out of thine own cistern.—The “strange woman,” on the other hand, says, “Stolen waters are sweet” (Proverbs 9:17). The same figure is employed in Song of Solomon 4:15, where a wife is compared to “a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:17
(17) Let them be only thine own.—The deepest joys and sorrows of each heart are sacred, and cannot be shared with others (Proverbs 14:10), and so it is with the various relations of family life also, strangers have no part in them. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:18
(18) Let thy fountain . . .—As a reward for purity of life, the blessing of a numerous offspring is invoked. (Comp. Psalms 128:3, where the wife is a “fruitful vine,” and the children numerous and flourishing like olive-branches.) read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:19
(19) Loving hind and pleasant roe.—The deer and chamois, from their grace and speed and lustrous eyes, have always been chosen by the Oriental poets as figures of human strength and beauty. (Comp. Song of Solomon 2:9; Song of Solomon 2:17; Song of Solomon 7:3; Song of Solomon 8:14; Psalms 18:33.) Both these animals are said to be remarkable for their affection to their young. read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Proverbs 5:7
(h). Eighth Discourse:—Against Adultery, and in Praise of Marriage (Proverbs 5:7-23).(7) Hear me now therefore, O ye children.—In this verse Solomon apparently ceases to report the words of his father, and resumes his speech in his own person. read more