The end of the sensual life: to “die without instruction,” life ended, but the discipline of life fruitless; to “go astray,” as if drunk with the greatness of his folly (the same word is used as for “ravished” in Proverbs 5:19, see marg.), even to the end. This is the close of what might have gone on brightening to the perfect day Proverbs 4:18.
Verse Proverbs 5:23. _HE SHALL DIE WITHOUT INSTRUCTION_] This is _most likely_, and it is a _general_ case; but even _these_ may repent and live....
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...
DIE WITHOUT INSTRUCTION. Illustration: Saul (1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Chronicles 10:14)....
_without_ Rather, FOR LACK OF, R.V.; quia non habuit disciplinam, Vulg. Do you ask the cause of this dread catastrophe? The end, "he shall die," and the road which led to it, "he shall go astray," ar...
TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23 15. Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16. Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17....
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. HE SHALL DIE WITHOUT INSTRUCTION - without the disciplinary instruction (so the Hebrew) which is the privileg...
5:23 discipline; (c-7) Or 'instruction.' astray. (d-18) 'Shall go astray' is the same root word as 'be ravished' in vers. 19,20. But the passage is surely made plain by chap. 26.11. 'he shall go on in...
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,...
The evil man is foolish. He thinks that he is free. But his evil behaviour will make him into a slave. He can hide his actions from other people. But he cannot hide from God (Numbers 32:23). This man’...
HIS OWN INIQUITIES... — The final scene in the life of the profligate is here described. He has sinned so long that he is “tied and bound,” hand and foot, with the “chain of his sins,” and cannot get...
HE SHALL DIE WITHOUT INSTRUCTION. — Rather, _for want of discipline,_ because he would not control himself, “he shall die,” and “for the greatness of his folly (self-will) he shall go astray,” and “wa...
ה֗וּא יָ֭מוּת בְּ אֵ֣ין מוּסָ֑ר וּ בְ
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...
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...
He shall (n) die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (n) Because he will not give ear to God's word and be admonished....
REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS Jesus! at the very mention of thy name, how do all lesser objects lose their interest; and what an everlasting security is there found in thee, while living upon thy fulness, and...
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...
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...
HE SHALL DIE WITHOUT INSTRUCTION,.... Into the evil of sin, and the danger he is in, and so without repentance for it; for instruction is the means of repentance, and productive of it when blessed, Je...
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. Ver. 23. _He shall die without instruction._] To spend the span of this transitory life after the ways of one's...
_His own iniquities shall take the wicked_ “Let him not think to escape, because he is so cunning that nobody observes him, or so powerful that no one can call him to an account; for his own manifold...
He shall die without instruction, for want of correction, because he would not accept it, AND IN THE GREATNESS OF HIS FOLLY HE SHALL GO ASTRAY, thus bringing destruction upon himself. Such is the way...
CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...
15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and act...
WITHOUT INSTRUCTION; because he neglected instruction. Or, _without correction or amendment_. He shall die in his sins, and not repent of them, as he designed and hoped to do before his death. IN THE...
Proverbs 5:23 die H4191 (H8799) instruction H4148 greatness H7230 folly H200 astray H7686 (H8799) shall die -...
EPILOGUE. HE MUST RECOGNISE THAT A MAN'S WAYS ARE OPEN TO YHWH'S EYES, AND MUST NOT FORFEIT THE LEVEL PATHS THROUGH FOLLY (PROVERBS 5:21). The passage, like all previous passages, ends with an epilogu...
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....
_He shall die without instruction._ THE GREAT CHARITY OF EARLY INSTRUCTION All persons are born in a state of ignorance and darkness as to spiritual things; therefore all young persons need instructi...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:21 FOR A MAN’S WAYS ARE BEFORE THE EYES OF THE LORD reminds the righteous of how the Lord blesses the one who stays on the good path (compare...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 5:21. Pondereth, or “marketh out.” PROVERBS 5:22. SHALL BE HOLDEN, rather “is holden.” PROVERBS 5:23. WITHOUT, “for lack of.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—
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 Peter 2:15; Job 36:12; Job 4:21; Proverbs 10:21; Proverbs 14:14;...
Die — He shall die in his sins. Astray — From the way of life, and from eternal salvation....