Proverbs 5:5

Scofield's Reference Notes - Proverbs 5:5

hell Heb. "Sheol," (See Scofield " :-") read more

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

Chapter 5Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge ( Proverbs 5:1 , Proverbs 5:2 ).And now he's going to warn his son again about the strange woman.For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood ( Proverbs 5:3-4 ),Now, though her lips drop like a honeycomb, all the sweetness and sugar and all, yet the end is bitter. Bitter... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:1-23

Proverbs 5:3 . The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb. She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman. Their number is now alarming to the state. The men who support them are equal in number. Asylums are inadequate to remedy the hundredth part of the evil. In the purer ages of patriarchal society, they were put to death. When Tamar was pregnant, Judah said, “Bring her forth, and let her be... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:1-14

Proverbs 5:1-14My son, attend unto my wisdom. Caution against sexual sinsThe scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so violent, the examples of which are so many, and which, where admitted, are so destructive to all the seeds of virtue in the soul. We are warned--I. That we do not listen to the charms of this sin.1. How fatal the consequences will be! The terrors of conscience. The torments of hell.2. How... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:3-5

Proverbs 5:3-5For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb.A strange womanOne outside of the true family bonds and relationships. This description has been regarded by expositors as having a double sense.1. It is a portrait of a harlot, especially one of foreign extraction.2. It is a representation of the allurements of unsound doctrine and corrupt worship.I. We have here a description of the strange woman.1. Her vile, unclean, flattering, enticing speech.2. Her fate: her end bitter,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:5

Pro 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Ver. 5. Her feet go down to death. ] The Romans were wont to have their funerals at the gates of Venus’s temple, to signify that lust was the harbinger and hastener of death, saith Plutarch. As for whores, they were of old shut out of the city, and forced to seek places among the graves. Hence they were called Maechae bustuariae. De scortis dictum inter busta prostrantibus, saith Turnebus. a See Trapp on " Pro 2:18 " Her... read more

Samuel Bagster

Scofield's Reference Notes - Proverbs 5:5

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:1-23

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 5:3-5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 5:5

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 5:5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:5

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