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Text -- Proverbs 5:13-23 (NET)
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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 .
5:23 He will die because there was no discipline ; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Young Men |
Adultery |
Temptation |
Women |
Prostitute |
Chastity |
SONG OF SONGS |
Husband |
SEALED, FOUNTAIN |
Cord |
Cistern |
FOUNTAIN |
Death |
Deer |
HIND |
Sin |
RIVER |
Lasciviousness |
Self-condemnation |
Water |
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NET Notes -> 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; Pro 5:23; Pro 5:23; Pro 5:23
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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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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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