proverbs-6:32-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:20-35

Discourse 7. Addressed To ‘My Son’. He Is Urged To Observe The Commandment And The Torah, Avoiding The Enticement Of The Adulterous Woman, And Being Aware Of The Wrath Of The Deceived Husband (Proverbs 6:20-35 ). Having illustrated in Proverbs 6:1-19 the different types of people to whom wisdom speaks, the naive, the fool and the scorner, Solomon now returns to pleading with his ‘son’ to listen to wisdom, and to avoid the enticing woman who is the very opposite of woman wisdom, and is in this... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:30-35

To Steal A Man’s Wife By Adultery Is Far Worse And Far More Costly Than To Steal His Possessions, For Compensation Can Be Made For Stolen Possessions, But No Compensation Will Be Considered As Satisfactory For Adultery (Proverbs 6:30-35 ). A comparison is now made between a man who is hungry and steals in order to satisfy his hunger, who in consequence has to pay a heavy price, and a man who is sexually hungry and steals his neighbour’s wife in order to satisfy his hunger. But in his case no... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:1-35

Proverbs 6:1-Psalms : . A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1-Deuteronomy : against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6-1 Kings : against sloth, Proverbs 6:12-Ezra : against talebearing, Proverbs 6:16-Psalms : against seven sins. Then the subject of sexual vice is continued from Proverbs 5. Proverbs 6:1-Psalms : obviously breaks the connexion, and was probably inserted after the compilation of Proverbs 6:1-1 Samuel :.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 6:32

Lacketh understanding; is a brutish and silly man, who madly rusheth upon these filthy courses, without any sense or consideration of the horrid shame and certain destruction which attends upon them. Destroyeth his own soul, or life; is guilty of self-murder and of soul-murder. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 6:33

A wound; civil or corporal punishment from the magistrate, or rather from the woman’s husband, as it follows. His reproach shall not be wiped away; although it be forgiven by God, yet the reproach and scandal of it remains. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 6:24-35

CRITICAL NOTES,—Proverbs 6:24. Evil woman, literally. “the woman of evil.” Proverbs 6:26. Last clause means “an adulteress allures to that which may cost a man his life” (Stuart). Proverbs 6:30. Despise. Some translators render this word “scorn,” others “disregard.” Stuart, Wordsworth, and others adopt the former and understand the words to mean “men do not despise the thief, they do despise the adulterer.” Noyes and others, adopting the latter rendering, take the sentence to mean “men punish... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:1-35

Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened by the phrase:My son, if you be surety for thy friend, or if you have stricken hands with a stranger, you've become snared with the words of your mouth, you've been taken with the words of your mouth. Now do this, and deliver yourself, my son, when you've come to the hand of your friend; go, and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 6:1-35

Proverbs 6:1 . If thou be surety for thy friend. If charity has gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending without hope: but to bind one’s self in cases of speculation may incur a serious loss, without real advantage to another. Proverbs 6:3 . When thou art come into the hand of thy friend. The sense is intricate. The LXX read, When thou art come into the hands of rigorous men for thy friend; go,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:32

Proverbs 6:32He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.The suicide of the soulLovely as maiden purity is, and crowned with benedictions though it is by Christ, we have here to learn its excellence and fear its loss, by the sad, stern picture of impurity and shameless sin. In these sad proverbs of purity the wise man pictures to us in fearful personification wisdom’s rival standing in the same great thoroughfares of earth and bidding to her shameful pleasures the simple youth who throng the broad... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:32

Proverbs 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Ver. 32. Lacketh understanding. ] Being wholly carried by sensual appetite, against the dictates both of religion and of reason. Beetles love dunghills better than ointments, and swine love mud better than a garden. Luther tells of a certain noble in his country so besotted with the sin of whoredom, he was not ashamed to say, that if he might ever live here, and be... read more