Proverbs 5:22 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:15-23

Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have prevented. Let none complain that God has dealt unkindly with them in forbidding them those pleasures... 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 5:22

He shall be holden with the cords of his sins - Most people who follow unlawful pleasures, think they can give them up whenever they please; but sin repeated becomes customary; custom soon engenders habit; and habit in the end assumes the form of necessity; the man becomes bound with his own cords, and so is led captive by the devil at his will. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced at before in Proverbs 2:15-19 , and which he again treats of in the latter part of the sixth and in the whole of the seventh chapters. This constant recurrence to the same subject, repulsive on account of its associations, shows, however, the importance which it had in the teacher's estimation as a ground of warning, and that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself; i.e. his manifold sins shall overtake and arrest him. The imagery is borrowed from the snare of the fowler. The emphatic form of the original, "His sins shall overtake him, the impious man," point conclusively to the adulterer. It is "his" sins that shall overtake him, not those of another, and they shall fall upon his own head; and further, his character is depicted in the condemning clause, "the impious man;" for such he is. Shall take. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

Cords of sin I. THE SINNER IS IN BONDAGE . Such a condition is not expected when a man freely gives the reins to his passions, and weakly yields himself to temptation. On the contrary, he supposes that he is enjoying a larger liberty than they possess who are constrained to walk in the narrow path of righteousness. Moreover, even when this shocking condition is reached, he is slow to admit its existence. He will not confess his bondage; perhaps he scarcely feels it. Thus the Jews... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22-23

The fearful end of the adulterer . From the universal statement of God's omniscience and the Divine judgment, the teacher passes to the fate of the profligate. His end is inevitable ruin and misery. The deep moral lesson conveyed is that sin carries with it its own Nemesis. Adultery and impurity, like all sin of which they are forms, are retributive. The career of the adulterer is a career begun, continued, and ended in folly (comp. Proverbs 1:31 , Proverbs 1:32 ; Proverbs 2:5 ; ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22-23

Vice suicidal I. WICKEDNESS ( LIKE GOODNESS ) HAS UNDESIGNED RESULTS . The good comes back to nestle in the bosom of the giver and the doer. We never do right without invoking a blessing on our own heads. Evil, on the other hand, designed and executed, is like a snare set for one's self, a net in the meshes of which the crafty is entangled, self-overreached. II. WICKEDNESS AND IGNORANCE ARE IN CLOSE CONNECTION . "He shall die for want of instruction"—the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22-23

The end of an evil course There are two fearful evils in which Impenitent sin is sure to end, two classes of penalty which the wrong doer must make up his mind to pay. He has to submit to— I. AS INWARD TYRANNY OF THE MOST CRUEL CHARACTER . ( Proverbs 5:22 .) We may never have seen the wild animal captured by the hunter, making violent efforts to escape its tolls, failing, desperately renewing the attempt with fierce and frantic struggles, until at length it yielded... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:22-23

Proverbs 5:22-23. His own iniquities shall take the wicked “Let him not think to escape, because he is so cunning that nobody observes him, or so powerful that no one can call him to an account; for his own manifold iniquities shall arrest and apprehend him.” And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins “He shall need no other chains to bind, and hold him fast, to answer for them to God.” Bishop Patrick. He shall die without instruction Because he neglected instruction; or, as באין... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 5:15-23

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 5:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:22-23

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:22-23

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