Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:19
For the good man - Literally, "For the man is not in his house." read more
Provérbios 7:6-23 Nvipt
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:20
He hath taken - Literally, "The money bag he hath taken in his hand." He is gone a journey of itinerant merchandising. This seems to be what is intended. And will come home at the day appointed - הכסא ליום leyom hakkase , the time fixed for a return from such a journey. The Vulgate says, "at the full moon." The Targum, "the day of the assembly." In other words, He will return by the approaching festival. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech - With her blandishments and lascivious talk, she overcame all his scruples, and constrained him to yield. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:22
As an ox goeth to the slaughter - The original of this and the following verse has been variously translated. Dr. Grey corrects and translates thus: "He goeth after her straightway, as an Ox goeth to the Slaughter; as a Dog to the Chain; and as a Deer till the Dart strike through his liver; as a Bird hasteneth to the Snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life." Very slight alterations in the Hebrew text produce these differences; but it is not necessary to pursue them; all serve to mark... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 7:1-27
13. Thirteenth admonitory discourse, containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In this chapter and the following a contrast is drawn between the adulteress and Wisdom. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 7:1-27
A tragedy of temptation This is a fine piece of dramatic moral description, and there is no reason why it should not be made use of, handled with tact and delicacy, with an audience of young men. I. THE PROLOGUE . ( Proverbs 7:1-5 .) On Proverbs 7:1 , see Proverbs 1:8 ; Proverbs 2:1 ; Proverbs 6:20 . On Proverbs 6:2 , see on Proverbs 4:4 . Here an expression not before used occurs. "Keep my doctrine as thine eye apple;" literally, "the little man in thine eye." It is... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 7:1-27
The two ways Here we have— I. THE WAY OF SIN AND DEATH . This is: 1 . The way of thoughtlessness. It is the "simple ones," the "young men void of understanding" ( Proverbs 7:7 ), those who go heedlessly "near the corner," "the way to the house" of the tempter or the temptress ( Proverbs 7:8 ). It is those who "do not consider," who do not think who they are, what they are here for, whither they go, what the end will be;—it is these who go astray and are found in... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 7:6
For . The particle introduces the example. At the window of my house. He gives a graphic delineation of a scene witnessed outside his house. I looked through my casement; eshnab , "the lattice," which served the purpose of our Venetian blinds, excluding the sun, but letting the cool air pass into the room (comp. 5:28 ). A person within could see all that passed in the street without being himself visible from without (So Proverbs 2:9 ). The Septuagint reads the sentence as spoken... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 7:6-23
To show the greatness of the danger presented by the seductions of the temptress, the writer introduces no mere abstraction, no mere personification of a quality, but an actual example of what had passed before his own eyes. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us take our fill of love - דדים נרוה nirveh dodim , "Let us revel in the breasts;" and then it is added, "Let us solace ourselves with loves," באהבים נתעלסה nithallesah boohabim ; "let us gratify each other with loves, with the utmost delights." This does not half express the original; but I forbear. The speech shows the brazen face of this woman, well translated by the Vulgate, "Veni, inebriemur uberibus; et fruamur cupidinis amplexibus." And the Septuagint has expressed... read more