That thy lips may keep knowledge— The LXX read, The understanding of my lips commands thee; have nothing to do with a strange woman; for honey distilleth from the lips of a woman who is a fornicator, which may for a time fatten thy cheeks. See Wall and Houbigant.
AND THAT THY LIPS MAY KEEP - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”...
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...
REGARD DISCRETION, &C. Hebrew infinitive. to guard deep counsels and knowledge. Let them mount guard over thy lips. Compare James 3:8, "the tongue can no man tame"....
_regard_ Rather, PRESERVE, R.V. Comp. _keep_in the parallel clause of the verse....
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...
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. THAT THOU MAYEST REGARD DISCRETION, AND (THAT) THY LIPS MAY KEEP KNOWLEDGE - that they lips may have a discreet and intelli...
5:2 reflection, (f-5) Or 'well-considered thoughts,' it is plural. for singular see ch. 1.4, 'discretion.'...
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...
Solomon begins his lesson in the usual way. He reminds us why we need wisdom and knowledge. With wisdom and knowledge, we can avoid danger....
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,...
לִ שְׁמֹ֥ר מְזִמֹּ֑ות וְ֝ דַ֗עַת שְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ...
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...
_Thoughts. Or wisdom; and act with discretion. --- Mind, &c., is omitted in Hebrew and St. Jerome. (Calmet) --- By woman all concupiscence, or the inducement to sin, is commonly understood. We must no...
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...
THAT THOU MAYEST REGARD DISCRETION,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the Vulg...
That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge. Ver. 2. _That thou mayest regard discretion._] Or, That thou mayest keep in thy thoughts, as Job did, Job 31:1 "Why then sh...
_My son, attend unto my wisdom_ “There being nothing,” says Bishop Patrick, “to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to satisfy their fleshly desires, and nothing proving so pernicious to...
that thou mayest regard discretion, the reflection and consideration needed for circumspect behavior, AND THAT THY LIPS MAY KEEP KNOWLEDGE, preserving its instructions word for word and repeating them...
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...
REGARD, or, _keep_, i.e. hold fast, as it is in the next clause. _Discretion_; spiritual wisdom for the conduct of thy life, as this word is used PROVERBS 1:4, and elsewhere in this book. THAT THY LIP...
Proverbs 5:2 preserve H8104 (H8800) discretion H4209 lips H8193 keep H5341 (H8799) knowledge H1847 thy lips -...
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....
_That thou mayest regard discretion._ THE WISE MAN’S INTENTION IN GIVING ADVICE Some knit these words to what follows, and understand them thus: “I wish thee to hearken to wise counsels, that thy hea...
_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 5:2 The son’s LIPS MAY GUARD KNOWLEDGE, that is, he should not speak anything that is inconsistent with true knowledge and wisdom. In contrast, THE LIPS OF A FORBIDDEN WOMAN...
_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...
Malachi 2:6; Malachi 2:7; Proverbs 10:21; Proverbs 15:2; Proverbs 15:7