Proverbs 5:9

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR UNTO OTHERS. "Thine honour" - i:e., thy chastity and purity. Maurer takes the Hebrew as it means in , "comeliness;" margin, 'vigour' (cf. Proverbs 5:10; ). By the general term (masculine) "others" is meant chiefly the adulteress and the harlot, including all who are connected with her (Gejer); and the idols, the worship of which is spiritual adultery (1 Kings 11:3). AND THY YEARS UNTO THE CRUEL - the adulteress, who ruins both body and soul ...

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 5:9. _LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR_] The _character_ of a _debauchee_ is universally detested: by this, even those of _noble_ _blood_ lose their _honour_ and _respect_. _THY YEARS UNTO THE CRUEL_] Though all the blandishments of love dwell on the tongue, and the excess of fondness appear in the whole demeanour of the _harlot_ and the _prostitute_; yet _cruelty_ has its throne in their hearts; and they will _rob_ and _murder_ (when it appears to answer their ends) those who give their _strength_, their _wealth_, and their _years_ to them. The unfaithful _wife_ has often murdered her own husband for the sake of her paramour, and has given _him_ over to justice in order to save herself. Murders have often taken place in brothels, as well as robberies; for the vice of...

THINE HONOR - i. e., “The grace and freshness of thy youth” (compare Hosea 14:6; Daniel 10:8). The thought of this is to guard the young man against the sins that stain and mar it. The slave of lust sacrifices “years” that might have been peaceful and happy to one who is merciless....

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

LEST THOU GIVE THINE HONOUR UNTO OTHERS,.... To strumpets, their children, attendants, servants, and friends; that is, either wealth or riches, which make men honourable; or their three, credit, and reputation, which are lost by keeping company with such persons; or the outward comeliness of the body, and inward rigour of the mind, which are impaired by adulterous practices. The Targum renders it, "thy strength"; and so the Syriac version, "thy strength of body", which is enervated by such impurities; see Proverbs 31:3; compare with this the kings of the earth that commit fornication with the whore of Rome, giving their power and strength to the beast, Revelation 17:2. Jarchi's note is, "lest thine heart has respect to other gods, to give them the glory of thine honour and praise;''...

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

YEARS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for what happens in them....

_others_ instead of to _thine own, Proverbs 5:15; Proverbs 5:17_. Comp. Proverbs 5:10 . _the cruel_ The Heb. noun is masc. sing. and is intended perhaps vividly to describe the sin with its cruel consequences (Proverbs 6:26; Proverbs 6:31-35; Proverbs 7:22-23; Proverbs 7:26) as a merciless personal Avenger. LXX. ἀνελεήμοσιν, taking the Heb. word a