Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 5:12
More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.
More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.
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...
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 say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; AND SAY, HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION, MY HEART DESPISED REPROOF - reverting to . The sinner shall at last marvel at his own am...
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...
HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION. — The last stage of misery is the remorse which comes too late. (Comp. Matthew 25:30.)...
וְֽ אָמַרְתָּ֗ אֵ֭יךְ שָׂנֵ֣אתִי מוּסָ֑ר 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 SAY, HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION,.... To live virtuously, and avoid the adulterous woman; this he says, as wondering at his stupidity, folly, and madness, that he should hate and abhor that which...
_And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;_ Ver. 12. _And say, How have I hated, &c._] When cast out with the prodigal, and hath nothing left him but a diseased body, a di...
_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 say, How have I hated instruction, as here given, AND MY HEART DESPISED REPROOF, by which earnest men, true friends, tried to keep him from the path of lewdness;...
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...
HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION! oh what a mad beast have I been, to hate and slight the fair warnings which were given me, and against mine own knowledge, to run headlong into this pit of destruction! w...
Proverbs 5:12 say H559 (H8804) hated H8130 (H8804) instruction H4148 heart H3820 despised H5006 (H8804) correction
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 say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof._ CONSCIENCE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF PUNISHMENT These are supposed to be the words of a young man whose dissolute life had induced di...
_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...
2 Chronicles 24:20; 2 Chronicles 25:16; 2 Chronicles 33:10; 2 Chronicles 33:11;...