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Text -- Proverbs 5:1-22 (NET)

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Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil
5:1 My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding, 5:2 in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge. 5:3 For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil, 5:4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. 5:6 Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it. 5:7 So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak. 5:8 Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, 5:9 lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person, 5:10 lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house. 5:11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away. 5:12 And you will say, “How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof! 5:13 For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors. 5:14 I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!” 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well. 5:16 Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas? 5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. 5:18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife5:19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always. 5:20 But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman? 5:21 For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord’s eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths. 5:22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
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NET Notes: Pro 5:1 Heb “incline your ear” (so NAB, NRSV); NLT “listen carefully.”

NET Notes: Pro 5:2 This “discretion” is the same word in 1:4; it is wise, prudential consideration, careful planning, or the ability to devise plans with a v...

NET Notes: Pro 5:3 Heb “her palate.” The word חֵךְ (khekh, “palate; roof of the mouth; gums”) is a metonymy of cause (= o...

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...

NET Notes: Pro 5:5 The terms death and grave could be hyperbolic of a ruined life, but probably refer primarily to the mortal consequences of a life of debauchery.

NET Notes: Pro 5:6 The sadder part of the description is that this woman does not know how unstable her life is, or how uneven. However, Thomas suggests that it means, &...

NET Notes: Pro 5:7 Heb “the words of my mouth” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV).

NET Notes: Pro 5:8 There is a contrast made between “keep far away” (הַרְחֵק, harkheq) and “do not draw near&...

NET Notes: Pro 5:9 The term הוֹד (hod, “vigor; splendor; majesty”) in this context means the best time of one’s life (cf. NIV &...

NET Notes: Pro 5:10 The term “benefit” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity and smoothness.

NET Notes: Pro 5:11 Heb “in the finishing of your flesh and your body.” The construction uses the Qal infinitive construct of כָּל...

NET Notes: Pro 5:13 The form is the Piel plural participle of לָמַד (lamad) used substantivally.

NET Notes: Pro 5:14 The text uses the two words “congregation and assembly” to form a hendiadys, meaning the entire assembly.

NET Notes: Pro 5:15 Paul Kruger develops this section as an allegory consisting of a series of metaphors. He suggests that what is at issue is private versus common prope...

NET Notes: Pro 5:16 The verb means “to be scattered; to be dispersed”; here the imperfect takes a deliberative nuance in a rhetorical question.

NET Notes: Pro 5:17 The point is that what is private is not to be shared with strangers; it belongs in the home and in the marriage. The water from that cistern is not t...

NET Notes: Pro 5:18 Or “in the wife you married when you were young” (cf. NCV, CEV); Heb “in the wife of your youth” (so NIV, NLT). The genitive f...

NET Notes: Pro 5:19 The verb שָׁגָה (shagah) means “to swerve; to meander; to reel” as in drunkenness; it signifies a stag...

NET Notes: Pro 5:20 Heb “foreigner” (so ASV, NASB), but this does not mean that the woman is non-Israelite. This term describes a woman who is outside the mor...

NET Notes: Pro 5:21 Heb “all his”; the referent (the person mentioned in the first half of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Pro 5:22 The Hebrew is structured chiastically: “his own iniquities will capture the wicked, by the cords of his own sin will he be held.”

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