Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 5:10
Strangers; not only the strange women themselves, but bawds, panders, and other adulterers, who are in league with them. Thy labours; wealth gotten by thy labours.
Strangers; not only the strange women themselves, but bawds, panders, and other adulterers, who are in league with them. Thy labours; wealth gotten by thy labours.
STRANGERS - The whole gang of those into whose hands the slave of lust yields himself. The words are significant as showing that the older punishment of death Deuteronomy 22:21; Ezekiel 16:38; John 8:...
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...
WEALTH. Hebrew strength: put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for what is produced by it. LABOURS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for what is produced by it. A STRANG...
_wealth_ The word may mean either that which a man acquires, his _wealth_(A.V. text, R.V. marg.), or that by which he acquires it, his _strength_(R.V. text, A.V. marg.) of mind and body. Genesis 49:3...
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...
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; LEST STRANGERS BE FILLED WITH THY WEALTH, AND THY LABOURS (BE) IN THE HOUSE OF A STRANGER. "Strangers" mean...
5:10 stranger; (k-20) Or 'of another.'...
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...
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,...
A young man should not waste his strength with another man’s wife. He should use his strength wisely. When he marries, perhaps he will have his own family. We must all be careful with our strength. W...
פֶּֽן ־יִשְׂבְּע֣וּ זָרִ֣ים כֹּחֶ֑ךָ וַ֝ עֲצָבֶ֗יךָ...
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...
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy (f) labours [be] in the house of a stranger; (f) The goods gotten by your travel....
_Strength. Or children, ver. 16., and Genesis xlix. 3. (Calmet)_...
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...
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 i...
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger; Ver. 10. _Lest strangers be filled._] This sin is a purgatory to the purse, though a paradise to the desires...
_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...
lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, enjoying their fill in consuming the, labor and strength of their victim, AND THY LABORS, what a man has worked for with hard labor, be in the house of a stra...
WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
THY WEALTH: _ Heb._ thy strength...
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...
Proverbs 5:10 aliens H2114 (H8801) filled H7646 (H8799) wealth H3581 labors H6089 house H1004 foreigner H5237...
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...
Hosea 7:9; Luke 15:30; Proverbs 31:3; Proverbs 6:35...
Strangers — Not only the strange women themselves, but others who are in league with them. Labors — Wealth gotten by thy labours....