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Verse Proverbs 5:22. _HE SHALL BE HOLDEN WITH THE CORDS OF HIS
SINS._] Most people who follow unlawful pleasures, think _they can
give them up_ _whenever they please_; but sin _repeated_ becomes
_cus...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_
2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15)
Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the
accompanying spirit...
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PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses
exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...
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INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44.
TAKE. trap or entrap him.
WICKED. a lawless man. Hebrew. _rasha, '._ App-44.
HE SHALL BE HOLDEN. Illustrations: Saul (1 Samuel 18:8; 1 Samuel 18:9.
Compare...
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DISCOURSE: 766
THE CAPTIVATING POWER OF SIN
Proverbs 5:22. _His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and
he shall be holden with the cords of his sins_.
THE force of habit is well known: it...
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TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23
15.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.
16.
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
And streams of water in the streets?
17....
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be
holden with the cords of his sins.
HIS OWN INIQUITIES SHALL TAKE THE WICKED HIMSELF, AND HE SHALL BE
HOLDEN WITH THE CORDS OF HIS S...
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UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE
A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two
leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss
of honour, property, life, oppo...
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He has had the instruction, but took no heed of it. Now it is too
late....
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The evil man is foolish. He thinks that he is free. But his evil
behaviour will make him into a slave. He can hide his actions from
other people. But he cannot hide from God (Numbers 32:23). This
man’...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects:
1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband.
2. Evil things are like this woman,...
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HIS OWN INIQUITIES... — The final scene in the life of the
profligate is here described. He has sinned so long that he is “tied
and bound,” hand and foot, with the “chain of his sins,” and
cannot get...
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עַֽוֹונֹותָ֗יו יִלְכְּדֻנֹ֥ו אֶת ־הָ
רָשָׁ֑ע וּ...
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CHAPTER 6
THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN
"His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with
the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the
greatness of his fo...
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This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in
words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and
searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural
t...
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_Ropes. "Evil habits unrestrained induce a necessity," (St. Augustine,
Confessions viii. 5.) though not absolute. (Haydock) --- The libertine
thinks he can get free as soon as he pleases; not being aw...
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine
own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters
in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...
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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...
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HIS OWN INIQUITIES SHALL TAKE THE WICKED HIMSELF,.... As in a snare or
net, as Gersom observes; in which the adulterer is so entangled that
he cannot extricate himself; he may fancy that when he grows...
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be
holden with the cords of his sins.
Ver. 22. _His own iniquities shall take the wicked._] As so many
sergeants set on by God; who will...
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_His own iniquities shall take the wicked_ “Let him not think to
escape, because he is so cunning that nobody observes him, or so
powerful that no one can call him to an account; for his own manifold...
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SINS:
_ Heb._ sin...
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15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these
destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend
to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and act...
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In vain doth he think to disentangle himself from his lusts by
repenting when he grows in years, and to escape punishments; for he is
in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able nor willing t...
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Proverbs 5:22 iniquities H5771 entrap H3920 (H8799) wicked H7563
caught H8551 (H8735) cords H2256 sin H2403...
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EPILOGUE. HE MUST RECOGNISE THAT A MAN'S WAYS ARE OPEN TO YHWH'S EYES,
AND MUST NOT FORFEIT THE LEVEL PATHS THROUGH FOLLY (PROVERBS 5:21).
The passage, like all previous passages, ends with an epilogu...
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CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be
an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
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Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She
employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How
wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....
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_His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself._
MAN AS KNOWN BY GOD AND PUNISHED BY SIN
I. Man as known by God. The fact that God knows man thoroughly, if
practically realised, will have a fourf...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:21 FOR A MAN’S WAYS ARE BEFORE THE
EYES OF THE LORD reminds the righteous of how the Lord blesses the one
who stays on the good path (compare...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Proverbs 5:21. Pondereth, or “marketh out.”
PROVERBS 5:22. SHALL BE HOLDEN, rather “is holden.”
PROVERBS 5:23. WITHOUT, “for lack of.”
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 5:1
8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and
commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a
subject which he has glanced at before in...
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Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding:
That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge
(Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2).
And now he's going to warn his...
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1 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 5:9; Ecclesiastes 7:26; Ephesians
5:5;...
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Holden — He is in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able
nor wiling to set himself at liberty....