Verse Proverbs 5:9. _LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR_] The _character_ of a _debauchee_ is universally detested: by this, even those of _noble_ _blood_ lose their _honour_ and _respect_. _THY YEARS UNTO...
THINE HONOR - i. e., “The grace and freshness of thy youth” (compare Hosea 14:6; Daniel 10:8). The thought of this is to guard the young man against the sins that stain and mar it. The slave of lust s...
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...
YEARS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for what happens in them....
_others_ instead of to _thine own, Proverbs 5:15; Proverbs 5:17_. Comp. Proverbs 5:10 . _the cruel_ The Heb. noun is masc. sing. and is intended perhaps vividly to describe the sin with its cruel cons...
LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR UNTO OTHERS— The word _others_ אחרים _acheirim,_ denoted, among the Israelites, _strangers;_ aliens from the true religion, and also its enemies. I suppose it has respect t...
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 thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR UNTO OTHERS. "Thine honour" - i:e., thy chastity and purity. Maurer takes the Hebrew as it means i...
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...
THINE HONOUR. — Rather, _freshness, vigour._ THY YEARS. — The best years of thy life. UNTO THE CRUEL. — That is the temptress herself, or her hangers-on and associates, whose sole idea is plunder....
פֶּן ־תִּתֵּ֣ן לַ אֲחֵרִ֣ים הֹודֶ֑ךָ וּ֝ שְׁנ
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 thou give thine (e) honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: (e) That is, your strength and goods to her who will have no pity on you as is read of Samson and the prodigal son....
_Strangers. The world, the flesh, and the devil are such; cruelly devising our ruin. (Worthington)_...
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 THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR UNTO OTHERS,.... To strumpets, their children, attendants, servants, and friends; that is, either wealth or riches, which make men honourable; or their three, credit, and r...
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Ver. 9. _Lest thou give thine honour,_] _i.e., _ Whatsoever within thee, or without thee, may make thee honourable or esteemed,...
_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 thou give thine honor unto others, for there is not only the exposure of the fornicator to be considered, but also the fact that the harlot and her favorites will succeed in taking the respect of...
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...
THINE HONOUR; thy dignity and reputation, the strength and rigour of thy body and mind, which is an honour to a man, and which are commonly wasted by adulterous practices. UNTO OTHERS; unto whores, an...
Proverbs 5:9 give H5414 (H8799) honor H1935 others H312 years H8141 cruel H394 Prover
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....
_Lest thou give thine honour unto others._ A MAN’S HONOUR SUNK IN SENSUALITY A good name is better than precious ointment, but of a good name this abominable sin is the ruin. The credit of David and...
_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...
_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...
Genesis 38:23; Hosea 4:13; Hosea 4:14; Judges 16:19; Nehemiah 13:26
Honour — Thy dignity and reputation, the strength of thy body and mind. Years — The flower of thine age. The cruel — To the harlot, who though she pretends love, yet in truth is one of the most cruel...