Proverbs 5:11-22 NIV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:19

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe ,.... That is, the wife of youth; let her always appear to thee as amiable and lovely as these creatures are; or let her be loved by thee as these are by princes and great men F23 "Cervus erat forma praestanti", &c.; Virgil. Aeneid l. 7. , who used to keep them tame, keep them clean, wash, comb them, and adorn them, and play with them; or rather, as these creatures are loving to their mates, let thy love be single, chaste, pure, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman ,.... Or "err with her" F25 "Errares", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "aberrares", Cocceius. ; after all those inconveniences and miseries that follow upon a conversation with a harlot, and all those advantages of a marriage state set before thee; why wilt thou be, so foolish and mad as to have a fondness for an harlot and dote upon her, and neglect entering into a marriage state, or forsake the wife of youth? and yet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord ,.... Both good and bad; the ways of a chaste and virtuous man, who cleaves to his own wife and shuns the harlot, which are approved of by the Lord; and the ways of a lewd man, all the impure thoughts, desires, and contrivances of his mind, and all the steps he takes to commit lewdness, and all the filthy actions he is guilty of, these are all open and naked to the omniscient God: the adulterer seeks the twilight, and flatters himself... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself ,.... As in a snare or net, as Gersom observes; in which the adulterer is so entangled that he cannot extricate himself; he may fancy that when he grows old his lusts will be weakened, and he shall be able to get clear of them, and have repentance for them, but he will find himself mistaken; he will become but more and more hardened by them and confirmed in them, and will have neither will nor power to repent of them, and shake off those... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:11

When thy flesh and thy body are consumed - The word שאר shear , which we render body, signifies properly the remains, residue, or remnant of a thing: and is applied here to denote the breathing carcass, putrid with the concomitant disease of debauchery: a public reproach which the justice of God entails on this species of iniquity. The mourning here spoken of is of the most excessive kind: the word נהם naham is often applied to the growling of a lion, and the hoarse incessant... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:14

I was almost in all evil - This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex. In the midst of the congregation and assembly - In the mydel of the Curche and of the Synagoge - Old MS. Bible. Such persons, however sacred the place, carry about with them eyes full of adultery, which cannot cease from sin. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern - Be satisfied with thy own wife; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband; and not tempt him by inattention or unkindness to seek elsewhere what he has a right to expect, but cannot find, at home. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad - Let thy children lawfully begotten be numerous. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only thine own - The off-spring of a legitimate connection; a bastard brood, however numerous, is no credit to any man. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed - ברוך מקורך יהי yehi mekorecha baruch . Sit vena tua benedicta. Thy vein; that which carries off streams from the fountain of animal life, in order to disperse them abroad, and through the streets. How delicate and correct is the allusion here! But anatomical allusions must not be pressed into detail in a commentary on Scripture. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:17

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:18

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