Proverbs 5:4

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 end is bitter, and such must be also that of her follower. When she falls, so must he also. SHARP AS A TWO-EDGED SWORD - therefore only to be foiled with "the Word of God," which is "quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword" ()....

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 and manners; but the direct view is to warn against seventh-commandment sins. Often these have been, and still are, Satan's method of drawing men from the worship of God into false religion. Consider how fatal the consequences; how bitter the fruit! Take it any way, it wounds. It leads to the torments of hell. The direct tendency of this sin is to the destruction of body and soul. We must carefully avoid every thing which may be a step towards it. Those who would be kept from harm, must keep out of harm's way. If we thrust ourselves into temptation we mock God when we pray, Lead us not into temptation. How many mischiefs attend this sin! It blasts the reputation; it wastes time; it ruins the e...

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....

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

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 the issue of complying with her, is bitterness; such as loss of credit, substance, and health, remorse of conscience, and fear of death, corporeal and eternal; see Ecclesiastes 7:26; SHARP AS A TWOEDGED SWORD; which cuts every way; as committing sin with an harlot hurts both soul and body; and the reflection upon it is very cutting and distressing, and destroys all comfort and happiness. This is the reverse of her soothing and softening speech, which is as oil. Such also will be the sad case of the worshippers of the beast, or whore of Rome; who will gnaw their tongues for pain, and be killed with the twoedged sword that proceedeth out of the mouth of Christ,...

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

_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 the star named "wormwood" had fallen....

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 the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: 4. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 5. Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol; 6. So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not. 7. Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth. 8. Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh to the door of her house; 9. Lest thou give honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;...