Proverbs 6:26

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. FOR BY MEANS OF A WHORISH WOMAN (A MAN IS BROUGHT) TO A PIECE OF BREAD - to his last cake of bread - i:e., to indigence (; cf. , "Every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for ... a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me ... into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread"). AND THE ADULTERESS (LITERALLY, THE WIFE OF A MAN, ) WILL HUNT FOR THE PRECIOUS LIFE - (cf. , "Ye (women) hunt the souls of my people.") Intercourse with the "wh...

20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly became our Surety, when we were strangers and enemies. And shall Christians, who have such prospects, motives, and examples, be slothful and careless? Shall we neglect what is pleasing to God, and what he will graciously reward? May we closely watch every sense by which poison can enter our minds or affections....

Verse Proverbs 6:26. _BY MEANS OF A WHORISH WOMAN_] In following lewd women, a man is soon reduced to poverty and disease. The _Septuagint_ gives this a strange turn: τιμη γαρ πορνης, οση και ενος αρτου. "For the price or hire of a whore is about one loaf." So _many_ were they in the land, that they hired themselves out for a _bare subsistence_. The _Vulgate, Syriac_, and _Arabic_, give the same sense. The old MS. Bible has it thus: _The price forsothe of a strumpet is unneth oon_ _lof: the woman forsothe taketh the precious liif of a man_. The sense of which is, and probably the sense of the _Hebrew_ too, While the man hires the whore for a _single loaf_ of bread; the woman thus hired taketh his _precious life_. She extracts his energy, and poisons his constitution. In the first clause אשה זונה _ishshah_ _zonah_ is plainly a...

The two forms of evil bring, each of them, their own penalty. By the one a man is brought to such poverty as to beg for “a piece of bread” (compare 1 Samuel 2:36): by the other and more deadly sin he incurs a peril which may affect his life. The second clause is very abrupt and emphatic in the original; “but as for a man’s wife; she hunts for the precious life.”...

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 6:1 The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are (1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1); (2) sloth (Proverbs 6:6); (3) malice (Proverbs 6:12); and (4) adultery (Proverbs 6:20 to the end). The continuity of the subject treated of in the preceding chapter appears to be somewhat abruptly interrupted to make way for the insertion of three

FOR BY MEANS OF A WHORISH WOMAN [A MAN IS BROUGHT] TO A PIECE OF BREAD,.... To be glad of one, and to beg for one, for the least morsel; it is expressive of the extreme poverty and want which harlots bring men to, who strip them of all their substance, and then send them going to get their bread as they can; thus the prodigal, having spent his substance with harlots, was so reduced as to desire the husks which swine ate, Luke 15:13; so spiritual fornication or idolatry leaves men without bread for their souls, brings them into spiritual poverty, and even to desperation and death; AND THE ADULTERESS WILL HUNT FOR THE PRECIOUS LIFE; or "soul" n; not content with his precious substance, his jewels, his gold and silver; having stripped him of his goods and livelihood, though some think that is here intended; she lays snares for him, and draws him into those evils which bring him

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_ 2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6) 3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12) 4. The strange woman (Proverbs 6:20) Proverbs 6:1. These are instructions concerning contracts, in being surety for a neighbor and the danger connected with it. Proverbs 6:6. The sluggard is commanded to go to the ant for a lesson. (See also...

A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs 6:12 against talebearing, Proverbs 6:16 against seven sins. Then the subject of sexual vice is continued from Proverbs 5. Proverbs 6:1 obviously breaks the connexion, and was probably inserted after the compilation of Proverbs 6:1....

THE... LIFE. the soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

Fourteenth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:20. _The Evil Woman_ The holy memories and sanctions of the family are invoked (Proverbs 6:20) to give weight to another earnest warning against the sin which destroys the purity and saps the foundations of family life (Proverbs 6:24)....