George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 6:32
Folly. Literally, "want," inopiam. Hebrew, "is faint-hearted, corrupting his own soul, he will do that." (Haydock)
Folly. Literally, "want," inopiam. Hebrew, "is faint-hearted, corrupting his own soul, he will do that." (Haydock)
Verse 32. BUT _WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY_] The case understood is that of a _married man_: he has a wife; and therefore is not in the circumstances of the _poor thief_, who stole to _appease his hunge...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_ 2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6) 3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12) 4. The strange woman ...
A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs 6:12 against talebearing,...
BUT WHOSO. How much more he who. UNDERSTANDING. Hebrew. heart: put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for understanding....
_understanding_ Lit. HEART. See Proverbs 2:2, note. _he that doeth it destroyeth_ Rather, HE DOETH IT THAT WOULD DESTROY....
Fourteenth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:20. _The Evil Woman_ The holy memories and sanctions of the family are invoked (Proverbs 6:20) to give weight to another earnest warning against the sin which...
TEXT Proverbs 6:23-35 23. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24. To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the for...
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. (BUT) WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING - literally, heart....
6:32 understanding. (a-10) Or 'senseless.' strictly, 'lacking heart,' and so often....
DISSUASIVES FROM HURTFUL THINGS Proverbs 6:1 are inserted here from some other collection, and contain warnings against suretyships (1-5), sloth (6-11), falseness (12-15), evils which the Lordhates (1...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 6 V1 My son, follow this advice when you make a mistake. Perhaps you promised to pay a neighbour’s debt....
The thief (in verse 30) suffered a severe punishment. The man (in verse 32) will have a worse punishment. This man had sex with another man’s wife. The husband will punish him. There is a double puni...
נֹאֵ֣ף אִשָּׁ֣ה חֲסַר ־לֵ֑ב מַֽשְׁחִ֥ית נַ֝פְשֹׁ֗ו...
CHAPTER 7 CERTAIN EXAMPLES OF THE BINDING CHARACTER OF OUR OWN ACTIONS "The surety the sluggard and the worthless person." Proverbs 6:1; Proverbs 6:6; Proverbs 6:12 FROM the solemn principle announc...
The parental exhortations are continued. In this section they are directed against suretyship, indolence, the evil man, and certain specific things which Jehovah hates. The warnings against becoming s...
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepe...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
[BUT] WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN,.... Which is a greater degree of theft than the former, it being the stealing of another man's wife; LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; or "an heart" t; the thief la...
Proverbs 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Ver. 32. _Lacketh understanding._] Being wholly carried by sensual appeti...
_Men do not despise a thief_ That is, abhor or reproach him, but rather pity and pardon him, who is urged by mere necessity to these practices, but the adulterer is abhorred by all. _If he_ The thief;...
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding, he is deficient both in moral principle and prudence, he risks more than any reasonable man would chance; HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH...
WARNING DEPICTING THE CONSEQUENCES OF UNCHASTITY...
UNDERSTANDING: _ Heb._ heart...
20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own natu...
LACKETH UNDERSTANDING; is a brutish and silly man, who madly rusheth upon these filthy courses, without any sense or consideration of the horrid shame and certain destruction which attends upon them....
Proverbs 6:32 adultery H5003 (H8802) woman H802 lacks H2638 understanding H3820 does H6213 (H8799) destroys H7843 ...
TO STEAL A MAN'S WIFE BY ADULTERY IS FAR WORSE AND FAR MORE COSTLY THAN TO STEAL HIS POSSESSIONS, FOR COMPENSATION CAN BE MADE FOR STOLEN POSSESSIONS, BUT NO COMPENSATION WILL BE CONSIDERED AS SATISFA...
DISCOURSE 7. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. HE IS URGED TO OBSERVE THE COMMANDMENT AND THE TORAH, AVOIDING THE ENTICEMENT OF THE ADULTEROUS WOMAN, AND BEING AWARE OF THE WRATH OF THE DECEIVED HUSBAND (PROVERB...
CONTENTS: Caution against rash suretiship, slothfulness, forwardness, and whoredom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: Suretiship is to be avoided, because by it poverty and ruin are ofte...
Proverbs 6:1. _If thou be surety for thy friend._ If charity has gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending w...
_He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul._ THE SUICIDE OF THE SOUL Lovely as maiden purity is, and crowned with benedictions though it is by Christ, we have here to learn its excellence and fear its...
CRITICAL NOTES,— Proverbs 6:24. Evil woman, literally. “the woman of evil.” PROVERBS 6:26. Last clause means “an adulteress allures to that which may cost a man his life” (_Stuart_). Proverbs 6:30
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 6:1 The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are (1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1); (2) sloth ...
Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened b...
Ecclesiastes 7:25; Ecclesiastes 7:26; Ezekiel 18:31; Genesis 39:10;...