Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? AND WHY WILT THOU, MY SON, BE RAVISHED WITH A STRANGE WOMAN, AND EMBRACE THE BOSOM OF A STRANGER? When there are so many advantages in conjugal love, and losses in adulterous love, what madness, baseness, and danger it is to seek the embraces of a harlot or adulteress!...

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 acting with affection. Ever remember, that though secret sins may escape the eyes of our fellow-creatures, yet a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, who not only sees, but ponders all his goings. Those who are so foolish as to choose the way of sin, are justly left of God to themselves, to go on in the way to destruction....

Emphasis is laid (see the Proverbs 2:16 note) upon the origin of the beguiler....

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 Proverbs 2:15, and which he again treats of in the latter part of the sixth and in the whole of the seventh chapters. This constant recurrence to the same subject, repulsive on account of its associations, shows, however, the importance which it had in the teacher's estimation as a ground of warning, and that he ranked it among the foremost of the temptations and sins which called the young off from the pursuit of Wisdom, and so led them astray from "the fear of the Lord." The vividness with which the ruin, bodily and moral, ensuing with absolute certainty on a

AND WHY WILT THOU, MY SON, BE RAVISHED WITH A STRANGE WOMAN,.... Or "err with her" y; after all those inconveniences and miseries that follow upon a conversation with a harlot, and all those advantages of a marriage state set before thee; why wilt thou be, so foolish and mad as to have a fondness for an harlot and dote upon her, and neglect entering into a marriage state, or forsake the wife of youth? and yet though things are so clearly stated and aptly represented, and the expostulation made in the most tender and affectionate manner; it is suggested as if after all it would not be attended unto, but a harlot be preferred to a wife of youth, a filthy beast to a loving hind, and dirty puddles of water in a ditch to running streams from a well or fountain; AND EMBRACE THE BOSOM OF A STRANGER? that is not thy wife; a description of unlawful love and impure embraces, which are dissuaded f...

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 spiritual fornication, turning away from the worship of Jehovah and worshipping idols. The dreadful results of sinful lust are vividly described. How many a young man has found out the truth as given in these words in his licentious life. _ And thou mourn at thy latter end_ When thy flesh and thy body are consumed. Solomon received these repeated warnings, yet after great prosperity and honor came to him, and his glory spread in every direction like many a rich and successful man o

PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3. The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the description of the blessings she confers. PROVERBS 5:3 F. One of the few passages referring to Heb. educational methods (pp. 109f.). Instruction is oral, given by the father or the mother (Proverbs 1:8

STRANGE. apostate. Hebrew. _zur_. See note on Proverbs 5:3. STRANGER. alien or foreigner. Hebrew. _nakar._ See note on verses: Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 5:10....

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. Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. 18. Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19. As a loving hind and a pleasant roe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love. 20. For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? 21. For the ways of men are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths. 22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords

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, opportunity of repentance, and (2) the sufficiency and desirableness of conjugal love....