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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:1-35

Social-climbers and others (23:1-35)Those who seek status like to mix with the upper classes and try to copy their habits. But because of their ignorance of how to eat fine foods, they make fools of themselves and so spoil their chances of progressing up the social ladder. The food they desire becomes the means of their downfall (23:1-3). The desire for wealth can lead to disappointment (4-5), and the efforts to win the favour of others may win only their disfavour. This may particularly be the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 23:27

strange = foreign. Hebrew. nakar. See note on Proverbs 2:16 ; Proverbs 5:3 . Not the same word as in Proverbs 23:33 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 23:28

transgressors = traitors. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 23:27

Proverbs 23:27. A whore is a deep ditch— See the note on chap. Proverbs 22:14. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 23:27

27, 28. deep ditch—a narrow pit, out of which it is hard to climb. lieth in wait—to ensnare men into the pit, as hunters entrap game (compare :-). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Proverbs 23:28

28. increaseth . . . transgressors— (Proverbs 5:8-10). The vice alluded to is peculiarly hardening to the heart. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Proverbs 23:26-28

Another exhortation to apply what follows prefaces this saying. It is especially important. Our culture glamorizes sexual promiscuity, but these verses reveal its true consequences: entrapment, constraint, painful loss, and treachery. Two types of harlots are in view: the unmarried (Heb. zonah, "harlot" or "prostitute") and the married (nokriyah, "adulterous woman" or "wayward wife," Proverbs 23:27). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 23:1-35

1. RV ’him that is before thee.’ Do not excite his contempt. 2. Restrain your appetite. 3. He invites you for his own purposes.4. Cease, etc.] i.e. desist from the attempt to be rich.6-8. Estimate the niggard according to his thoughts, rather than his words. Your pleasant conversation is wasted labour.10, 11. Read, ’The landmark of the widow.’ God Himself is the Goel, the redeemer, the next of kin, who protects widows and orphans (Exodus 22:21-23; Leviticus 25:25; Numbers 30:12; Ruth 4:3-4;... read more

Charles John Ellicott