Proverbs 5:20-7:21

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 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman ,.... Or "err with her" F25 "Errares", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "aberrares", Cocceius. ; after all those inconveniences and miseries that follow upon a conversation with a harlot, and all those advantages of a marriage state set before thee; why wilt thou be, so foolish and mad as to have a fondness for an harlot and dote upon her, and neglect entering into a marriage state, or forsake the wife of youth? and yet... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-20

Victims of vice One particular vice is here denounced; it is necessary to warn the young against its snares and sorrows. What is here said, however, of this sin is applicable, in most if not all respects, to any kind of unholy indulgence; it is an earnest and faithful warning against the sin and shame of a vicious life. I. ITS SINFULNESS . The woman who is a sinner is a "strange" woman ( Proverbs 5:3 ). The temptress is all too common amongst us, but she is strange in the... 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 5:15-21

Fidelity and bliss in marriage The counterpart of the foregoing warning against vice, placing connubial joys in the brightest light, of poetic fancy. I. IMAGES OF WIFEHOOD . The wife is described: 1 . As a spring, and as a cistern. Property in a spring or well was highly, even sacredly, esteemed. Hence a peculiar force in the comparison. The wife is the husband's peculiar delight and property; the source of pleasures of every kind and degree; the fruitful origin of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:20

And why ; i.e. what inducement is there, what reason can be given, for conjugal infidelity, except the lewd and immoral promptings of the lower nature, except sensuality in its lowest form? Ravished . The verb shagah recurs, but in a lower sense, as indicating "the foolish delirium of the libertine hastening after the harlot" (Zockler). With a strange woman (Hebrew, b'zarah ); i.e. with a harlot. On zarah, see Proverbs 2:16 and Proverbs 7:5 . The be ( בְּ ) localizes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 5:20-21

The adulterer to be restrained by the fact of God ' s omniscience and the Divine punishment. Proverbs 5:20 and Proverbs 5:21 should apparently be taken together. The teaching assumes a higher tone, and rises from the lower law which regulates fidelity to the wife, based upon personal attractions, to the higher law, which brings the husband's conduct into relation with the duty he owes to Jehovah. Not merely is his conduct to be regulated by love and affection alone, but it is to be... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 5:20-21

Proverbs 5:20-21. And why wilt thou be ravished with a strange woman? Consider a little, and deny, if thou canst, that it is an unaccountable folly to seek that satisfaction and comfort in a vile harlot, which thou mayest enjoy more pleasantly, securely, and constantly, as well as more innocently, in a pious wife of thine own people. For the ways of man are before the Lord “From whom no one can hide his most private actions, but he plainly sees and weighs all that a person doth,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-23

Temptations to sexual immorality (5:1-23)Strong warning is given to beware of the prostitute and the temptations she offers. (The frequency of this warning in Proverbs indicates that prostitution must have been a widespread social evil at the time.) The pleasure that the prostitute brings is shortlived, but the bitterness that follows is lasting. It leads eventually to death (5:1-6).A man must flee the temptations offered by such immoral company, otherwise he may finish a physical and moral... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 5:20

strange = apostate. Hebrew. zur . See note on Proverbs 5:3 . stranger = alien or foreigner. Hebrew. nakar. See note on verses: Proverbs 5:3 , Proverbs 5:10 . read more

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