Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 5:11
Yet one more curse is attendant on impurity. Then, as now, disease was the penalty of this sin.
Yet one more curse is attendant on impurity. Then, as now, disease was the penalty of this sin.
Verse Proverbs 5:11. _WHEN THY FLESH AND THY BODY ARE CONSUMED_] The word שאר _shear_, which we render body, signifies properly the _remains,_ _residue_, or _remnant_ of a thing: and is applied here...
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...
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...
AND THOU MOURN AT THE LAST— When in the decline of life thou shalt be without strength, without vigour, without children, without support, without resource. We must recollect the great desire which th...
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 thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, AND THOU MOURN AT THE LAST, WHEN THY FLESH AND THY BODY ARE CONSUMED. "At the last" - namely, when the final consequences of t...
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...
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...
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,...
WHEN THY FLESH AND THY BODY ARE CONSUMED. — Ruin of health has followed ruin of property....
וְ נָהַמְתָּ֥ בְ אַחֲרִיתֶ֑ךָ בִּ כְלֹ֥ות בּ֝
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...
_Body. He alludes to a shameful disease, the just punishment of intemperance, Ecclesiasticus xix. 3._...
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 THOU MOURN AT THE LAST,.... Or roar as a lion, as the word s signifies; see Proverbs 19:12; expressing great distress of mind, horror of conscience, and vehement lamentations; and yet not having a...
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, Ver. 11. _And thou mourn at the last._] Heb., And thou roar; as being upon the rack of an evil conscience, and in the suburbs of...
_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 thou mourn at the last, groaning in distress when it is too late, WHEN THY FLESH AND THY BODY ARE CONSUMED, this being the punishment which will eventually strike the libertine,...
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...
THOU MOURN AT THE LAST; bitterly bewail thy own madness and misery when it is too late. THY FLESH AND THY BODY; thy flesh, even thy body; the particle and being put expositively. CONSUMED by those man...
Proverbs 5:11 mourn H5098 (H8804) last H319 flesh H1320 body H7607 consumed H3615 (H8800) thou -...
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 thou mourn at the last._ DYING REGRETS Religion has one undeniable advantage to recommend it--whatever it calls us to sacrifice or to suffer, it always ends well. On the other hand, sin has one...
_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 Corinthians 5:4; 1 Corinthians 5:5; Deuteronomy 32:29; Hebrews 13:4;...