Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 5:13
Of my teachers; of my parents, and friends, and ministers, who faithfully and seasonably informed me of those mischiefs and miseries which now I feel.
Of my teachers; of my parents, and friends, and ministers, who faithfully and seasonably informed me of those mischiefs and miseries which now I feel.
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...
OBEYED. hearkened to....
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...
DISCOURSE: 765 SINNER’S RETROSPECT Proverbs 5:12. _How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instru...
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...
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! AND HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF MY TEACHERS, NOR INCLINED MINE EAR TO THEM THAT INSTRUCTED ME! "Te...
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,...
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...
וְֽ לֹא ־שָׁ֭מַעְתִּי בְּ קֹ֣ול מֹורָ֑י וְ֝
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...
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...
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 maste...
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! Ver. 13. _Nor inclined mine ear._] I would not so much as hear them, nmch less obey their voice. _Intus...
_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...
and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! Such is the vain lament of the ruined sinner over his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brough...
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...
Proverbs 5:13 obeyed H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 teachers H3384 (H8688) inclined H5186 (H8689) ear H241 instructed...
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....
_And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers._ CONSEQUENCES OF DISOBEDIENCE Can any state be more distressing than that of an individual who has enjoyed the best opportunities of securing his own h...
_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 Thessalonians 4:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:13; Hebrews 13:7;...