Verse Proverbs 5:3. The lips of a strange woman] One that is not thy own, whether Jewess or heathen.
Drop as a honey-comb] She uses the most deceitful, flattering, and alluring speeches: as the droppings of the honey out of the comb are the sweetest of all.
SMOOTHER THAN OIL - The same comparison is used in marginal reference to describe the treachery of a false friend....
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...
A STRANGE WOMAN. Two words are used for "strange" and "stranger": one, Hebrew. _zur,_ an apostate Israelite woman gone over to the idolatrous impurities of heathen religion; the other _nakar,_. purely...
_strange_woman] See Proverbs 2:16, note....
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,...
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...
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: FOR THE LIPS OF A STRANGE WOMAN (NOTE, ) DROP (AS) AS AN HONEY-COMB. "Thy lips," by "keeping knowledge" ()...
5:3 mouth (g-12) Lit. 'palate.'...
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 married woman attracts a young man. She seems so beautiful. When he kisses her, her lips seem to taste like honey. When he listens to her, her words are so attractive. He does not think about the wo...
V. (3) HER MOUTH IS SMOOTHER THAN OIL. — The experience of David also with Ahitophel (Psalms 55:21)....
כִּ֤י נֹ֣פֶת תִּ֭טֹּפְנָה שִׂפְתֵ֣י זָרָ֑ה וְ...
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...
For the lips (a) of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than (b) oil: (a) That is, a harlot who gives herself to someone other than her husband. (b) By oil and honey...
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...
FOR THE LIPS OF A STRANGE WOMAN DROP [AS] AN HONEYCOMB,.... "Mulsa dicta", "honey words", as is Plautus's e expression. The Septuagint and Arabic versions premise something here which is not in the He...
For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil: Ver. 3. _For the lips of a strange woman drop._] Take heed therefore how thou exchange any words at all w...
_For the lips of a strange woman_, &c. It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold temptations to which thou art exposed; _drop as a honeycomb_ Her...
WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
For the lips of a strange woman, of a harlot, DROP AS AN HONEYCOMB, with seductive invitations, AND HER MOUTH IS SMOOTHER THAN OIL, in framing flattering and alluring speeches;...
MOUTH: _ Heb._ palate...
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...
It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayst be able to resist and repel those manifold temptations to which thou art exposed. DROP AS AN HONEYCOMB; her words and discourses are swee...
Proverbs 5:3 lips H8193 immoral H2114 (H8801) drip H5197 (H8799) honey H5317 mouth H2441 smoother H2509 oil...
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....
_For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb._ A STRANGE WOMAN One outside of the true family bonds and relationships. This description has been regarded by expositors as having a double se...
_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...
Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 6:24; Proverbs 7:21; Psalms 55:21; Re
The lips — It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those temptations to which thou art exposed....