Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Proverbs 5:4
Verse Proverbs 5:4. Bitter as wormwood] כלענה Kelanah, like the detestable herb wormwood, or something analogous to it: something as excessive in its bitterness, as honey is in its sweetness.
Verse Proverbs 5:4. Bitter as wormwood] כלענה Kelanah, like the detestable herb wormwood, or something analogous to it: something as excessive in its bitterness, as honey is in its sweetness.
WORMWOOD - In Eastern medicine this herb, the absinthium of Greek and Latin botanists, was looked upon as poisonous rather than medicinal. Compare Revelation 8:11....
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...
_wormwood_ The reference is perhaps not merely to the _bitterness_, but to the _noxiousness_of this herb. See Deuteronomy 29:18, and Revelation 8:10-11, where "many men died of the waters" into which...
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...
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. BUT HER END IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD - (). The flesh promises every delight, but it leaves bitter dregs (Mercer). The strange woman's own...
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,...
Evil ideas may seem attractive, but they are really terrible. When the man kissed the woman, even her lips tasted sweet. Later the taste in his mouth will be bitter. Later he will know the results of...
BITTER AS WORMWOOD. — The _absinthium_ of Revelation 8:11, where, apparently, it is considered as a poison. So God’s message to St. John (Revelation 10:10) was in his mouth sweet as honey (comp. Psalm...
וְֽ֭ אַחֲרִיתָהּ מָרָ֣ה כַֽ † לַּעֲנָ֑ה חַ֝דָּ֗ה...
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...
_Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." (St. Ambrose, de Abrah. ii. 11.) She seeks thy ruin, ver. 5., and chap. ii. 16._...
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...
BUT HER END IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD,.... Which is opposed to the honeycomb her lips are said to drop; so that, as Juvenal says g, "plus aloes quam mellis habet": the end which she brings persons to, or...
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Ver. 4. _But her end is bitter as wormwood._] The pleasure passeth, the sting remaineth; for in the froth of this filthy pleasure is bred...
_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...
but her end, her future, the reward which is sure to strike her, IS BITTER AS WORMWOOD, the universal emblem of poisonous bitterness, SHARP AS A TWO-EDGED SWORD, such is the final result of yielding t...
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...
Her design, and the effect of that lewdness to which she enticeth men, is the sinner's destruction....
Proverbs 5:4 end H319 bitter H4751 wormwood H3939 Sharp H2299 two-edged H6310 sword H2719 her -...
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...
Ecclesiastes 7:26; Hebrews 12:15; Hebrews 12:16; Hebrews 4:12;...
But — The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction....