Proverbs 6:24-25 ASV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-35

Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions. 1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pr. 6:23) and as a law, Pr. 6:20, 23. (1.) By its arguments it is a light, which our understandings must subscribe to; it is a lamp to our eyes for discovery, and so to our feet for direction. The word of God reveals to us truths of eternal certainty, and is built upon the highest reason. Scripture-light is the sure... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman ,.... This is one use of the profit arising from attending to the instructions of parents, and to the law of God, as taught by them; to preserve from fornication and adultery, one of its precepts expressly forbidding adultery and all corporeal uncleanness; and the whole of it directing to an observance of all duties respecting God and our neighbour, which requires diligence and industry, and prevents idleness, that inlet to all sin, and especially to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:25

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart ,.... Do not look upon it with the eye, nor dwell upon it in the thought; the one will lead on to and kindle last in the heart, and the other will cherish it and blow it up into a flame; and lust thus conceived and nourished in the heart is no other than committing adultery, Matthew 5:28 ; neither let her take thee with her eyelids ; let her not take thee from instruction with them, so Aben Ezra, from attending to that; or let her not take thy... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman - Solomon had suffered sorely from this quarter; and hence his repeated cautions and warnings to others. The strange woman always means one that is not a man's own; and sometimes it may also imply a foreign harlot, one who is also a stranger to the God of Israel. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:25

Neither let her take thee with her eye-lids - It is a very general custom in the East to paint the eye-lids. I have many Asiatic drawings in which this is expressed. They have a method of polishing the eyes with a preparation of antimony, so that they appear with an indescribable lustre; or, as one who mentions the fact from observation, "Their eyes appear to be swimming in bliss." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:1-35

The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are The continuity of the subject treated of in the preceding chapter appears to be somewhat abruptly interrupted to make way for the insertion of three discourses on subjects which apparently have little connection with what precedes and what follows. Their unlooked for and unexpected appearance has led Hitzig to regard them as interpolations, but it has been conclusively pointed out... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-24

Exhortation to chastity I. PREFACE . ( Proverbs 6:20 ; see on Proverbs 5:1 , Proverbs 5:2 ; Proverbs 1:8 ). II. EXHORTATION TO MINDFULNESS OF EARLY LESSONS . ( Proverbs 6:21 ; see on Proverbs 2:3 .) It is in oblivious moments that we sin. We may forget much that we have learned, having outgrown its need. We can never outgrow the simple, early lessons of piety. The chain that links our days each to each in moral progress is the memory of those lessons. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-35

12. Twelfth admonitory discourse. In this the teacher returns again to the subject which he has already treated in the eighth discourse. The extreme tendency of men, and especially young men, to sins of impurity is no doubt, as Delitzsch remarks, the reason why this subject is again resumed. The subject is gradually worked up to the preceding admonitions in Proverbs 6:20-23 , pointing out that the way of life, the way of safety, is to be secured by obedience to the precepts of parents,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-35

Sin and safety These verses may teach us— I. THAT MAN LIES OPEN TO STRONG AND SAD TEMPTATIONS . The reference of the text is to the sin of sensuality; the wise man is warning against the wiles of "the evil woman," "the strange woman" ( Proverbs 6:24 ). This sin of sensuality may consist in irregularities, or in things decidedly forbidden, or in gross and shameful violations of law and decency; it may be secret and hidden from every eye, or it may be unblushing and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:25

To keep thee from the evil woman. The specific object to which the discourse was tending. The "commandment" and the "law" illuminate the path of true life generally, but in a special degree they, if attended to, will guard the young against sins of impurity, fornication, and adultery. The evil woman (Hebrew, esheth ra ); strictly, a woman of evil, or vileness, or of a wicked disposition, addicted to evil in an extraordinary degree; ra being here a substantive standing in a genitive... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:1-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:20-35

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 6:25

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