Proverbs 5:1-33 ESV

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:9

Lest thou give thine honour unto others ,.... To strumpets, their children, attendants, servants, and friends; that is, either wealth or riches, which make men honourable; or their three, credit, and reputation, which are lost by keeping company with such persons; or the outward comeliness of the body, and inward rigour of the mind, which are impaired by adulterous practices. The Targum renders it, "thy strength"; and so the Syriac version, "thy strength of body", which is enervated by such... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:10

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth ,.... The adulteress, her husband, children, friends, bawds, and such like persons she is concerned with; these share the wealth of the adulterer, abound with it, and live profusely on it, until he is stripped quite bare and destitute: or, "with thy strength"; See Gill on Proverbs 5:9 . Jarchi interprets it of the prophets of Baal, that exact money by their falsehoods; it may well enough be applied to the fornicating merchants of Rome, who wax rich... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:11

And thou mourn at the last ,.... Or roar as a lion, as the word F19 נהמת "rugies", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Baynus, Gejerus, Amama, Michaelis. signifies; see Proverbs 19:12 ; expressing great distress of mind, horror of conscience, and vehement lamentations; and yet not having and exercising true repentance, but declaring a worldly sorrow, which worketh death. This mourning is too late, and not so much on account of the evil of sin as the evil that comes by it; it is when the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:12

And say, how have I hated instruction ,.... To live virtuously, and avoid the adulterous woman; this he says, as wondering at his stupidity, folly, and madness, that he should hate and abhor that which was so much his interest to have observed. Gersom interprets it of the instruction of the law; but it is much better to understand it of the instruction of the Gospel; which the carnal mind of man is enmity unto, and which they are so stupid as to abhor; when it is of so much usefulness to... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:13

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers ,.... Parents, tutors, masters, and ministers of the word; neither regarded the advice of parents, nor the instructions of tutors, nor the commands of masters, nor the sermons of ministers: these are all lost on some persons; they are proof against them all; these make no impressions upon them, and are of no use to them; nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me ! or to my masters, as the Targum and Vulgate Latin version; turned away... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:14

I was almost in all evil ,.... Scarce a sin but he was guilty of; contempt of private and public instructions, the instructions of parents and ministers of the Gospel, and following lewd women, commonly lead to the commission of all other sins, even the most atrocious. Some understand this, not of the evil of sin, but of the evil of punishment; and that the sense is, that there is scarce any calamity, distress, or misery, that a man can be in, but his profaneness and lewdness had brought him... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern ,.... Arguments being used to dissuade from conversation with an adulterous woman, taken from the disgrace, diseases, poverty, and distress of mind on reflection, it brings a man to; the wise man proceeds to direct to marriage, as a proper antidote against it: take a wife and cleave to her, and enjoy all the pleasures and comforts of a marriage state. As every man formerly had his own cistern for the reception of water for his own use, 2 Kings 18:31 ;... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad ,.... Or "shall abound", as the Targum; that is, streams of water from fountains; which Aben Ezra interprets of a multitude of children, namely, that are lawfully begotten: the "fountains" are the man and his wife in lawful marriage; the streams are their offspring lawfully procreated by them; which may be said to be "dispersed abroad", when being grown up they are disposed of in marriage in other families, and so become fountains to others, and public... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:17

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. Or "they shall be thine own" F21 יהיו לך "erunt tui", Mercerus, Cocceius; "erunt tibi", Baynus; "existent tibi", Schultens. , as the Targum; meaning not the cistern, the well, or the wife, but the fountains and rivers, or the children; by a man's cleaving to his own wife, who is a chaste and virtuous woman, he is satisfied that the children he has by her are his own, and not another's; whereas if he has to do with a common... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed ,.... Thy wife; make her happy by keeping to her and from others; by behaving in a loving, affable, and respectful manner to her; by living comfortably with her, and providing well for her and her children: or reckon her a happiness, a blessing that God has bestowed; or "thy fountain shall be blessed,' as the Targum; that is, with a numerous offspring, which was always reckoned a blessedness, and was generally the happiness of virtuous women, when harlots were... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 5:18

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