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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 wife –
5:19 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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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Young Men |
Adultery |
Prostitute |
Women |
Temptation |
Lasciviousness |
Chastity |
Remorse |
SONG OF SONGS |
Husband |
Wisdom |
SEALED, FOUNTAIN |
Cord |
Wormwood |
FOUNTAIN |
Cistern |
Children |
Deer |
Self-condemnation |
RIVER |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Pro 5:1; Pro 5:1; Pro 5:1; Pro 5:2; Pro 5:2; Pro 5:3; Pro 5:3; Pro 5:4; Pro 5:4; Pro 5:4; Pro 5:4; Pro 5:5; Pro 5:5; Pro 5:6; Pro 5:6; Pro 5:6; Pro 5:6; Pro 5:7; Pro 5:7; Pro 5:8; Pro 5:8; Pro 5:9; Pro 5:10; Pro 5:10; Pro 5:10; Pro 5:10; Pro 5:11; Pro 5:11; Pro 5:11; Pro 5:11; Pro 5:13; Pro 5:13; Pro 5:13; Pro 5:13; Pro 5:14; Pro 5:14; Pro 5:14; Pro 5:15; Pro 5:16; Pro 5:17; Pro 5:17; Pro 5:18; Pro 5:18; Pro 5:18; Pro 5:19; Pro 5:19; Pro 5:19; Pro 5:20; Pro 5:20; Pro 5:21; Pro 5:21; Pro 5:21; Pro 5:21; Pro 5:22; Pro 5:22; Pro 5:22; Pro 5:22; Pro 5:22
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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...
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NET Notes: Pro 5:3 Heb “her palate.” The word חֵךְ (khekh, “palate; roof of the mouth; gums”) is a metonymy of cause (= o...
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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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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.
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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, &...
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NET Notes: Pro 5:8 There is a contrast made between “keep far away” (הַרְחֵק, harkheq) and “do not draw near&...
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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 &...
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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.
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NET Notes: Pro 5:11 Heb “in the finishing of your flesh and your body.” The construction uses the Qal infinitive construct of כָּל...
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NET Notes: Pro 5:14 The text uses the two words “congregation and assembly” to form a hendiadys, meaning the entire assembly.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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NET Notes: Pro 5:19 The verb שָׁגָה (shagah) means “to swerve; to meander; to reel” as in drunkenness; it signifies a stag...
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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...
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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.
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