Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Proverbs 23:27
A deep ditch; in which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape.
A deep ditch; in which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape.
Verse Proverbs 23:27. _FOR A WHORE_ IS _A DEEP DITCH_] See on Proverbs 22:14....
Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims. Proverbs 23:16 The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s heart Proverbs 23:15 receives wisdom, and yet more when his lips can utter...
CHAPTER 23 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED The opening proverbs of this chapter treat of self-restraint in curbing the appetite and give manners to be observed in the presence of a superior. Warnings against r...
It is possible to take these three verses together as a warning against treachery lurking in the dainties of a royal table. In that case, in Proverbs 23:1 we should render consider diligently what (_m...
STRANGE. foreign. Hebrew. _nakar._ See note on Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 5:3. Not the same word as in Proverbs 23:33....
Comp. Proverbs 22:14....
A WHORE IS A DEEP DITCH— See the note on chap. Proverbs 22:14....
TEXT Proverbs 23:24-35 24. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. 25. Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that...
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. A WHORE (IS) A DEEP DITCH ... A NARROW PIT - where the fall is great, and whence there is no escape....
1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
In Galilee there are scores of ancient cisterns, bottle-shaped, into which one may fall and find it impossible to climb out....
The son must be careful about sex. Some women sell sex. They are like a deep hole that a hunter uses as a trap for animals. And some married women tempt other men. They are like a narrow well that a m...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 23 V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful! Think, before you eat!...
STRANGE WOMAN (_nokhriyyah_)_. — See_ above, on Proverbs 2:16....
כִּֽי ־שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲמֻקָּ֣ה זֹונָ֑ה וּ בְאֵ֥ר צ
CHAPTER 24 EDUCATION: THE PARENT'S THOUGHT OF THE CHILD "Train up a child according to his way, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."- Proverbs 22:6 "Withhold not correction from the...
At the seventeenth verse of the previous chapter the section of the Book begins in which the method is slightly changed. While the teaching is still proverbial, it takes the form of longer discourses...
_Pit. It is difficult to overcome this passion, when once it has got possession of the heart. We must therefore watch over it, and consecrate it in variably to wisdom, ver. 26._...
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
FOR A WHORE [IS] A DEEP DITCH,.... Or, "as a deep ditch", so Aben Ezra; to which she may be compared for the filthiness of her whoredoms, and for her insatiable lust, as well as for her being never sa...
For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit. Ver. 27. _For an whore is a deep ditch._] Fitly so called, _quod nullus neque modus neque finis sit in amore meritricio,_ because...
_For a whore is a deep ditch_ In which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape. See the note on Proverbs 22:14. _She lieth in wait_, &c. Watching...
V. 27. FOR A WHORE, as opposed to the person of wisdom, IS A DEEP DITCH, AND A STRANGE WOMAN, the outsider, the harlot, IS A NARROW PIT, one yielding to her seductions will find it hard to escape from...
Proverbs 23:27 harlot H2181 (H8802) deep H6013 pit H7745 seductress H5237 narrow H6862 well H875...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The indulgence of the appetites is a sin that easily besets us. We should apprehend ourselves to be in danger when...
Proverbs 23:1. _When thou sittest to eat with a ruler,_ and hast a princely feast before thee of meats and wines, _put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite._ How many have stained...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 23:26 The phrase GIVE ME YOUR HEART should guide parents in their task of child rearing. Their goal must be the deepest source of the child’s thoughts, words, and actions. ob...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 23:17. LET NOT THINE HEART ENVY, etc. The verb translated _envy_ refers to both objects in the verse, and is better translated “_strive after_.” Miller renders it “_be aglow...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 23:1 A hexastich closely connected with the last verse of the preceding chapter, as if the warning was addressed to the man of skill whom his talents had made the guest of kings....
Now the next three verses are coupled together. When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite. Be not de...
Proverbs 22:14...