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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 7 - Introduction

* Invitations to learn wisdom. (1-5) The arts of seducers, with warnings against them. (6-27)

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See also Proverbs 7 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Fifteenth Address. Chap. Proverbs 7:1-27. _The Evil Woman_ The subject of the last section of the foregoing chapter (Proverbs 6:20-35) is continued throughout this chapter. An earnest call to obedien...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _SOLOMON PERSUADETH TO A SINCERE AND KIND FAMILIARITY WITH WISDOM. IN AN EXAMPLE OF HIS OWN EXPERIENCE, HE SHEWETH THE CUNNING OF A WHORE, AND THE DESPERATE SIMPLICITY OF A YOUNG WANTON; HE DISSUADETH...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:2 instruction; (i-5) 'Wisdom' here and in ver. 7 is _ chokmah_ . 'Instruction' means also, 'correction,' 'warning,' 'discipline,' Job 36:10 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 7 The sum of this chapter is to exhort men to attend to the doctrines and precepts of Wisdom, in order to avoid the adulterous woman; the exhortation to keep them with care,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 3004. B.C. 1000._ Chastity is a virtue of so much consequence, and impurity such a bane to youth, that the wise man thought he could not too often make mention of the danger of the one, to move...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DISCOURSE 8. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. AFTER APPEALING TO HIM TO OBSERVE HIS WORDS SOLOMON VIVIDLY DESCRIBES THE WILES OF AN ADULTERESS AND WARNS ‘SONS' AGAINST HER (PROVERBS 7:1). This is the fourth ref...

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