Proverbs 5:23

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 privilege of the children of God (Proverbs 3:11), and therefore without the saving "wisdom" and "knowledge" which are its blessed fruits (; ). This is the just retribution in kind for having "hated instruction" (). God punishes sinner by giving them their own way. AND IN THE GREATNESS OF HIS FOLLY HE SHALL GO ASTRAY. The same Hebrew verb as in...

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....

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....

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....

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

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, Jeremiah 31:19; but it is but just that those who have hated and rejected it in health and life, that when they come to die should have none given them about the evil of sin, the danger of their state, and the way of salvation; or rather "because of instruction" z; because they would not bear and receive, but neglected, rejected, and despised it, so Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom; or "without correction" a, or discipline and amendment by it; AND IN THE GREATNESS OF HIS FOLLY HE SHALL GO ASTRAY; being left to the exceeding great folly of his mind, he shall continue to go astray as he has done from God and his good ways, from the precepts of his law, and the rules of his word; goin

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

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," are alike due to "lack of instruction" and to "folly." Said I not well then, "Attend to my wisdom, and incline thine ear to my understanding"?...