Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 5:1-20
ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and how gracefully they bound. We shall meet them all through Syria and Palestine, and the more you see of them the greater will be your admiration. Solomon is not alone in his partiality. Persian and Arab poets abound in reference to them. The fair ones of these fervid sons of song are often compared to the coy gazelle that comes by... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 5:6
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, to prevent thy serious consideration of the way and manner of rescuing thyself from this deadly course of life. Movable; various and changeable. She transforms herself into several shapes, to accommodate herself to the humours of her lovers, and hath a thousand arts and deceits to ensnare them, and hold them fast. Thou canst not know them; thou canst not discover all her subtle practices, and much less deliver thyself from them. read more