George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 5:14
Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. (Calmet) --- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint. (Menochius)
Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. (Calmet) --- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint. (Menochius)
Verse Proverbs 5:14. _I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL_] This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex. _IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND ASSEMBLY._] _In the mydel of_ _the Curche and o...
The conscience-stricken sinner had been “almost” given up to every form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen; “almost,” therefore, condemned to the death which that assembly m...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_ 2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15) Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the accompanying spirit...
PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...
I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL. The _Beth Essentiae_ denotes "in", in the sense of "as". I soon became as an evil man, &c. See App-75. ALMOST. in. little while. Hebrew. _kim'at._ Occurs eighteen times (Gene...
_I was almost in all evil_ Ewald and other commentators take this to mean, I had a narrow escape from incurring the extreme penalty which the law of Moses prescribes for this sin (Leviticus 20:10): I...
The pangs of remorse and the upbraidings of conscience form the terrible climax to the loss of honour and health and substance. " -Going down to the chambers of death," wise too late, the victim of h...
I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL— _I am plunged into almost all evils in the midst of the assembly of my people._ Calmet. Houbigant renders it, _I am well nigh become the most miserable of all those amongst w...
CHAPTER 5 TEXT Proverbs 5:1-14 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: 2. That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3. For th...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL-IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND ASSEMBLY. There was scarcely any sin that I did not engage in;...
He has only just escaped being brought before the assembly of the people, who would have sentenced him to death (Leviticus 20:19; Deuteronomy 22:22). 15-17. A man's pleasures should be sought at home...
UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss of honour, property, life, oppo...
These verses teach us the result, if we live for our desires. In the end our wrong desires will ruin us. They will bring us to despair. Solomon warns his son. He explains what will happen to a foolis...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 5 Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects: 1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband. 2. Evil things are like this woman,...
I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL... — Rather, _I had almost fallen into every sin: I was so infatuated that I might have committed any sin, and that openly before all._ Or, _I might have been visited with ext...
כִּ֭ מְעַט הָיִ֣יתִי בְ כָל ־רָ֑ע בְּ
CHAPTER 6 THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his fo...
QUICKSANDS! KEEP OFF! Proverbs 5:1-14 It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great evil, which has manifest...
This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural t...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (g) assembly. (g) Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by goo...
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
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, commonl...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Ver. 14. _I was almost in all evil._] Abraham Ben Ezra reads it in the future tense, _Brevi ero in omni malo,_ I shall shortly...
_Come not nigh the door of her house_ Lest thine eyes affect thy heart, and her allurements prevail over thee. _Lest thou give thine honour_ Thy dignity and reputation, the strength and vigour of thy...
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly, literally, "Almost I had been in the extremity of evil in the midst of assembly and congregation," that is, he had just barely e...
WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
1-14 Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds an...
I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL. Oh what a miserable man am I! There is scarce any misery, in respect of estate, or body, or soul, into which I am not already plunged. The words also are and may well be rend...
Proverbs 5:14 verge H4592 ruin H7451 midst H8432 assembly H6951 congregation H5712 Proverbs 13:20;...
THE NEED TO LISTEN TO SOLOMON'S WISDOM AND NOT TO BE ENTICED BY THE WORDS OF THE STRANGE WOMAN WHICH LEAD TO DEATH AND SLAVERY (PROVERBS 5:1). The constant reference to the need to avoid the enticemen...
CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....
_My son, attend unto my wisdom._ CAUTION AGAINST SEXUAL SINS The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so viole...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:9 The man who follows after the forbidden woman will see others take away from him the things that he himself should have enjoyed later in life (HONOR and YEARS, v....
_ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_ Here 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...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 5:1 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...
Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding: That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge (Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2). And now he's going to warn his...
1 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Peter 2:10; Hosea 4:11; Jude 1:7; Numbers 2
A moment — In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly — And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things....