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Verse Proverbs 23:27. _FOR A WHORE_ IS _A DEEP DITCH_] See on Proverbs
22:14....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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STRANGE. foreign. Hebrew. _nakar._ See note on Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs
5:3. Not the same word as in Proverbs 23:33....
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Comp. Proverbs 22:14....
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A WHORE IS A DEEP DITCH— See the note on chap. Proverbs 22:14....
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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...
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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....
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1. RV 'him that is before thee.' Do not excite his contempt....
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In Galilee there are scores of ancient cisterns, bottle-shaped, into
which one may fall and find it impossible to climb out....
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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...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 23
V1 When a ruler invites you for a meal, be careful!
Think, before you eat!...
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STRANGE WOMAN (_nokhriyyah_)_. — See_ above, on Proverbs 2:16....
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כִּֽי ־שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲמֻקָּ֣ה זֹונָ֑ה וּ
בְאֵ֥ר צ
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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...
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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...
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_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._...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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A DEEP DITCH; in which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and
out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape....
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Proverbs 23:27 harlot H2181 (H8802) deep H6013 pit H7745 seductress
H5237 narrow H6862 well H875...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...