Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 7:12
Without — Without the door of her house. Corner — Of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover herself, as she saw fit.
Without — Without the door of her house. Corner — Of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover herself, as she saw fit.
Verse Proverbs 7:12. _NOW_ IS SHE _WITHOUT_] She is continually exposing herself, and showing by her gait and gestures _what_ she is, and _what_ she _wants_. These two verses are a _parenthesis_, inte...
CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandment...
_without … streets_ Rather, IN THE STREETS, IN THE OPEN SPACES, or SQUARES. _corner_ Where two or more ways meet, and there is therefore more likelihood of passers-by. Comp. Matthew 6:5....
CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fin...
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: (Parenthetical description of the whorish woman's characteristics.) (SHE (IS) LOUD AND STUBBORN; HER FEET ABIDE NOT IN HER HOUSE. "Stubb...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 PROVERBS CHAPTER S 7 TO 9 The last, and greatest, of Solomon’s lessons, begins here. Since chapter 1, we have read the words that Solomon t...
פַּ֤עַם ׀ בַּ † ח֗וּץ פַּ֥עַם בָּ †...
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and picturesqu...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman w...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corne...
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...
NOW [IS SHE] WITHOUT,.... The word for whore is sometimes rendered in the Targum i one that goes abroad, or without her house; sitting or standing at the door of it, in an idle posture, and in order t...
_Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)_ Ver. 12. _Now she is without._] _See Trapp on "_ Pro 7:11 _"_ Further observe, that the former faults - loudness of lan...
_She is loud_, &c. Here the wise man draws her character. המיה היא וסררת, _She is clamorous and obstinate_, or _refractory._ She is full of talk, self-willed, disobedient to her husband, rebellious ag...
now is she without, now in the streets, AND LIETH IN WAIT AT EVERY CORNER, her progress from before her own door to the street and then to the intersection of streets being graphically portrayed.)...
CONDEMNATION OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not only t...
6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after...
WITHOUT; standing or waiting without or nigh the door of her house. IN THE STREETS; in places of resort. AT EVERY CORNER; at the corners of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover hers...
Proverbs 7:12 times H6471 outside H2351 times H6471 square H7339 Lurking H693 (H8799) at H681 corner H6438...
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDUCTION OF THE NAIVE YOUNG MAN BY THE ‘STRANGE WOMAN' (PROVERBS 7:6). This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the naive young man's actions (Pro...
CONTENTS: Warning against all approaches to the sin of adultery. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The Word of God, if used for a defense and armor, will keep one from the strange woman and...
Proverbs 7:1. _Keep my words lay up my commandments._ These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm....
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 7:11 The woman is described in terms similar to Wisdom, who cried aloud in the streets and markets (see Proverbs 1:20). But these are the actions of the woman Folly (see
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:7. SIMPLE, “inexperienced.” PROVERBS 7:8. WENT, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” PROVERBS 7:9. IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In...
He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and li...
Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 16:31; Jeremiah 2:20; Jer