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Text -- Proverbs 5:4 (NET)

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5:4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Young Men | Wormwood | Women | Sword | Prostitute | Lasciviousness | Hemlock | END | BITTER; BITTERNESS | Adultery | more
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Wesley: Pro 5:4 - -- The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction.

The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction.

JFB: Pro 5:4 - -- Literally, "her future," in sense of reward, what follows (compare Psa 37:37; Psa 73:17). Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those ...

Literally, "her future," in sense of reward, what follows (compare Psa 37:37; Psa 73:17). Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those of Pro 5:3. The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate are notoriously terrible.

Clarke: Pro 5:4 - -- Bitter as wormwood - כלענה Kelanah , like the detestable herb wormwood, or something analogous to it: something as excessive in its bitterness...

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.

TSK: Pro 5:4 - -- her : Pro 6:24-35, Pro 7:22, Pro 7:23, Pro 9:18, Pro 23:27, Pro 23:28; Ecc 7:26; Heb 12:15, Heb 12:16 sharp : Jdg 16:4-6, Jdg 16:15-21; Psa 55:21; Heb...

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Barnes: Pro 5:4 - -- Wormwood - In Eastern medicine this herb, the absinthium of Greek and Latin botanists, was looked upon as poisonous rather than medicinal. Comp...

Wormwood - In Eastern medicine this herb, the absinthium of Greek and Latin botanists, was looked upon as poisonous rather than medicinal. Compare Rev 8:11.

Poole: Pro 5:4 - -- Her design, and the effect of that lewdness to which she enticeth men, is the sinner’ s destruction.

Her design, and the effect of that lewdness to which she enticeth men, is the sinner’ s destruction.

Haydock: Pro 5:4 - -- Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." (St. Ambrose, de Abrah. ii. 11.) She seeks thy ruin, ver. 5., and chap. ii. 16.

Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." (St. Ambrose, de Abrah. ii. 11.) She seeks thy ruin, ver. 5., and chap. ii. 16.

Gill: Pro 5:4 - -- 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 melli...

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 Ecc 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, Rev 16:10.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 5:4 The Hebrew has “like a sword of [two] mouths,” meaning a double-edged sword that devours/cuts either way. There is no movement without dam...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Pro 5:1-23 - --1 Solomon exhorts to wisdom.3 He shews the mischief of whoredom and riot.15 He exhorts to contentedness, liberality, and chastity.22 The wicked are ov...

MHCC: Pro 5:1-14 - --Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand idolatry, false doctrin...

Matthew Henry: Pro 5:1-14 - -- Here we have, I. A solemn preface, to introduce the caution which follows, Pro 5:1, Pro 5:2. Solomon here addresses himself to his son, that is, to ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 5:1-6 - -- Here a fourth rule of life follows the three already given, Pro 4:24, Pro 4:25, Pro 4:26-27 : 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, And incline thine e...

Constable: Pro 1:1--9:18 - --I. DISCOURSES ON WISDOM chs. 1--9 Verse one introduces both the book as a whole and chapters 1-9 in particular. ...

Constable: Pro 1:8--8:1 - --B. Instruction for Young People 1:8-7:27 The two ways (paths) introduced in 1:7 stretch out before the r...

Constable: Pro 5:1-23 - --5. Warnings against unfaithfulness in marriage ch. 5 Chapters 5-7 all deal with the consequences...

Constable: Pro 5:1-6 - --The danger of seduction 5:1-6 The lips of the youth (v. 2) contrast with those of the se...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 5 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 5:1, Solomon exhorts to wisdom; Pro 5:3, He shews the mischief of whoredom and riot; Pro 5:15, He exhorts to contentedness, liberalit...

Poole: Proverbs 5 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 5 An exhortation to the study of wisdom, Pro 5:1,2 . To shun the company of strange women, Pro 5:3-5 . The mischief of whoredom and riots, ...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

MHCC: Proverbs 5 (Chapter Introduction) (Pro 5:1-14) Exhortations to wisdom. The evils of licentiousness. (Pro 5:15-23) Remedies against licentiousness, The miserable end of the wicked.

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs 5 (Chapter Introduction) The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of ch. 2. To write the same things, in other words, ought not to be grievous, for it is safe, ...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

Gill: Proverbs 5 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 5 The general instruction of this chapter is to avoid whoredom, and make use of lawful marriage, and keep to that. It is i...

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