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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Proverbs 5"
description: "CHAPTER 5   :-. A warning against the seductive arts of wicked women,
enforced by considering the advantages of chastity, and the miserable
end of the wic"
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CHAPTER 5

. A warning against the seductive arts of wicked women,
enforced by considering the advantages of chastity, and the miserable
end of the wicked.

**1.** This connection of *wisdom*
and *understanding* is frequent ([Proverbs 2:2](../../../kjv/proverbs/2/2);
[Proverbs 3:7](../../../kjv/proverbs/3/7)); the first denotes the
use of wise means for wise ends; the other, the exercise of a proper
discrimination in their discovery.

**2. regard**—or, "observe."
**keep**—preserve
constantly.

**3.** (Compare ). Her enticing promises are deceitful.

**4. her end**—literally, "her
future," in sense of reward, what follows (compare [Psalms 37:37](../../../kjv/psalms/37/37);
[Psalms 73:17](../../../kjv/psalms/73/17)). Its nature is evinced
by the use of figures, opposite those of [Psalms 73:17](../../../kjv/psalms/73/17). The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate
are notoriously terrible.

**5. feet . . . , steps**—that is,
course of life ends in death.

**6. her ways . . . know**—Some
prefer, "that she may not ponder the path of life," c. but
perhaps a better sense is, "her ways are varied, so as to
prevent your knowledge of her true character, and so of true
happiness."

**8, 9.** Avoid the slightest
temptation.

**9. thine honour**—in whatever
consisting, strength ([Proverbs 3:13](../../../kjv/proverbs/3/13))
or wealth.
**thy years**—by cutting
them off in dissipation.
**unto the cruel**—for such
the sensual are apt to become.

**10. wealth**—literally,
"strength," or the result of it.
**labours**—the fruit of
thy painful exertions ([Psalms 127:2](../../../kjv/psalms/127/2)).
There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death
due the adulterer ([Deuteronomy 22:22](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/22/22)).

**11. at the last**—the end, or
reward (compare [Proverbs 5:4](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/4)).
**mourn**—roar in pain.
**flesh and . . . body**—the
whole person under incurable disease.

**12-14.** The ruined sinner vainly
laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to
public disgrace.

**14. evil**—for affliction, as in
[Genesis 19:20](../../../kjv/genesis/19/20); [Genesis 49:15](../../../kjv/genesis/49/15).

**15-20.** By figures, in which
*well, cistern,* and *fountain* [[Proverbs 5:15](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/15);
[Proverbs 5:18](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/18)] represent the wife, and
*rivers of waters* [[Proverbs 5:16](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/16)]
the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in
lawful conjugal enjoyments. In [Proverbs 5:16](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/16), *fountains* (in the plural) rather denote the produce
or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring,"
and corresponds with "rivers of waters."

**17. only thine own**—harlots'
children have no known father.

**18. wife . . . youth**—married
in youth.

**19. loving . . . roe**—other
figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals.
**breasts**—(Compare
[Song of Solomon 1:13](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/1/13); [Ezekiel 23:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/3);
[Ezekiel 23:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/8)).
**ravished**—literally,
"intoxicated," that is, fully satisfied.

**15-20.** By figures, in which
*well, cistern,* and *fountain* [[Proverbs 5:15](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/15);
[Proverbs 5:18](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/18)] represent the wife, and
*rivers of waters* [[Proverbs 5:16](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/16)]
the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in
lawful conjugal enjoyments. In [Proverbs 5:16](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/16), *fountains* (in the plural) rather denote the produce
or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring,"
and corresponds with "rivers of waters."

**21.** The reason, God's eye is on
you,

**22, 23.** and He will cause sin to
bring its punishment.

**23. without instruction**—literally,
"in want of instruction," having refused it (compare
[Job 13:18](../../../kjv/job/13/18); [Hebrews 11:24](../../../kjv/hebrews/11/24)).
**go astray**—literally,
"be drunken." The word "ravished" ([Hebrews 11:24](../../../kjv/hebrews/11/24)) here denotes fulness of punishment.

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