--- title: "Proverbs 5 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Proverbs 5 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 ¶ Fo" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/proverbs/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/proverbs/5)[ Commentary](/study/proverbs/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/proverbs/5) Audio 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, *and* bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and *that* thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 ¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop *as* an honeycomb, and her mouth *is* smoother than oil:* 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, *that* thou canst not know *them*. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours *be* in the house of a stranger;* 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, *and* rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 *Let her be as* the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.** 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 21 For the ways of man *are* before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 22 ¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.* 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. [Proverbs 4](/study/proverbs/4) [Proverbs 6](/study/proverbs/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***[Proverbs 5:1](/kjv/proverbs/5/1)*****.*****My son attend,*****&c.—** There being nothing to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to their fleshly desires, and nothing so pernicious to them as to converse with harlots, the wise man renews his cautions against impure lusts, as destructive of true wisdom; and with repeated entreaties begs attention to so weighty an argument, which here he prosecutes more largely, and presses not only with singular elegance, but powerful reasoning. The principal things to be learned in this chapter are, not to believe every thing to be good for us which pleases the flesh for the present; but in the beginning of any pleasure to look to the end of it; to avoid the company of harlots; to use due care in the choice of a wife; to love her very tenderly; and to restrain ourselves from inordinate affections by the consideration of God's omnipresence. 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