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Proverbs 5

Introduction

1  Solomon exhorts to wisdom.
3  He shews the mischief of whoredom and riot.
15  He exhorts to contentedness, liberality, and chastity.
22  The wicked are overtaken with their own sins.

Verse 1

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
attend
2:1, 4:1,20, Matthew 3:9, Mark 4:23, Revelation 2:7,11,17,29, 3:6,13,22
bow
22:17, James 1:19

Verse 2

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
thy lips
10:21, 15:2,7, 16:23, 20:15, Psalms 45:2, 71:15, 119:13, Song of Solomon 4:11, Malachi 2:6,7

Verse 3

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
the lips
2:16, 6:24, 7:21, Revelation 17:2-6
mouth
Heb. palate. smoother.
Psalms 55:21

Verse 4

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
her
6:24-35, 7:22,23, 9:18, 23:27,28, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Hebrews 12:15,16
sharp
Judges 16:4-6,15-21, Psalms 55:21, Hebrews 4:12

Verse 5

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
2:18,19, 7:27

Verse 6

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
ponder
4:26, Psalms 119:59
the path
11:19, Psalms 16:11
her
6:12,13, 7:10-21, 2 Thessalonians 2:9,10

Verse 7

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Hear
4:1, 8:32-36, 22:17-21, Hebrews 12:25
and depart
3:21, 4:21

Verse 8

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
4:15, 6:27,28, Matthew 6:13, Ephesians 5:11

Verse 9

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
6:29-35, Genesis 38:23-26, Judges 16:19-21, Nehemiah 13:26, Hosea 4:13,14

Verse 10

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
strangers
6:35, Hosea 7:9, Luke 15:30
wealth
Heb. strength.
31:3

Verse 11

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
thou
7:23, Deuteronomy 32:29, Jeremiah 5:31, Romans 6:21, Hebrews 13:4, Revelation 21:8, 22:15
when
Numbers 5:27, 1 Corinthians 5:4,5

Verse 12

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
How
1:7,22,29,30, 15:5, Psalms 50:17, 73:22, Zechariah 7:11-14, John 3:19,20
and my
1:25, 6:23, 12:1, 13:18, Genesis 19:9, Exodus 2:13,14, 2 Chronicles 24:20-22, 25:16, 2 Chronicles 33:10,11, 36:16, Jeremiah 44:4, Zechariah 1:4-6

Verse 13

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Luke 15:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:8, 5:12,13, Hebrews 13:7

Verse 14

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
13:20, Numbers 25:1-6, Hosea 4:11-14, 1 Corinthians 10:6-8, 2 Peter 2:10-18, Jude 1:7-13

Verse 15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
18,19, 1 Corinthians 7:2-5, Hebrews 13:4

Verse 16

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
thy
Deuteronomy 33:28, Psalms 68:26, Isaiah 48:21
dispersed
Genesis 24:60, Judges 12:9, Psalms 127:3, 128:3

Verse 18

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
rejoice
Ecclesiastes 9:9, Malachi 2:14,15

Verse 19

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
as the
Song of Solomon 2:9, 4:5, 7:3, 8:14
satisfy thee
Heb. water thee.
5:15
be thou ravished always with her love
Heb. err thou always in her love.
2 Samuel 12:4

Verse 20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
with
2:16-19, 6:24, 7:5, 22:14, 23:27,28,33, 1 Kings 11:1

Verse 21

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
15:3, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Job 31:4, 34:21, Psalms 11:4, 17:3, 139:1-12, Jeremiah 16:17, Jeremiah 17:10, 23:24, 32:19, Hosea 7:2, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:18,23

Verse 22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
His
1:18,31, 11:3,5, Psalms 7:15,16, 9:15, Jeremiah 2:19, Hosea 4:11-14, Galatians 6:7,8
holden
Ecclesiastes 7:26
sins
Heb. sin.
1 Corinthians 5:9,10, Galatians 5:19-21, Ephesians 5:5,6, Hebrews 13:4

Verse 23

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
shall die
10:21, 14:32, Job 4:21, 36:12
in the
14:14, Psalms 81:12, 2 Peter 2:15-22

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