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Verse Proverbs 5:6. _LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER_] To prevent thee from
reflecting on thy present conduct, and its consequences, _her ways_
_are moveable _- she continually varies her allurements.
_T...
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Or (with the Septuagint and Vulgate), Lest she should ponder (or
“She ponders not”) the way of life, her paths move to and fro
(unsteady as an earthquake); she knows not. The words describe with a
ter...
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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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LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER. Render: So that she findeth not the level
path of life; her ways are unstable and she knoweth it not....
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_Lest thou shouldest ponder_ The rendering of A.V. or of R.V. marg.
(_Lest thou find the level path_, or, _Lest thou weigh carefully the
path_) is to be preferred to R.V. text which connects the words...
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LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER THE PATH OF LIFE— Houbigant renders this,
_She is far from following the way of life: her steps wander whither
she herself knoweth not:_ which is very like the Chaldee. The...
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CHAPTER 5
TEXT Proverbs 5:1-14
1.
My son, attend unto my wisdom;
Incline thine ear to my understanding:
2.
That thou mayest preserve discretion,
And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3.
For th...
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable,
that thou canst not know them.
LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER THE PATH OF LIFE, HER WAYS ARE MOVEABLE,
(THAT) THOU CANST NOT KNOW (T...
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5:6 ways (h-10) Or 'paths.' see Note i, ch. 2.9. [whither]. (i-15) Or
'Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are changeable.
thou canst not know [them].'...
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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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Read, 'Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable,
and she knoweth not.' So far is she from entering on the level path
which leads to life, her ways are unstable and she is reckles...
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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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Again, the verse compares life to a journey. Sometimes a person, like
this woman, refuses to hear God’s law. The woman lives in the way
that she chooses. She does not care about what is right or good....
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LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER... — The meaning of the English version
appears to be, “To prevent thy choosing the path of life, she leads
thee by devious paths that thou knowest not where thou art.” It m...
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אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים פֶּן ־תְּפַלֵּ֑ס
נָע֥וּ מַ֝עְגְּלֹתֶ֗יהָ...
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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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QUICKSANDS! KEEP OFF!
Proverbs 5:1-14
It is a matter for great thankfulness that the Bible, which is God's
book rather than man's, deals so strongly and wisely with one great
evil, which has manifest...
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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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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are (d)
moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
(d) She has always new means to allure to wickedness....
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_They. Hebrew, "if perhaps thou ponder the path of life." (Pagnin)
(Haydock) --- Or "she ponders not," &c. She walks inconsiderately, and
consults only her passions, chap. vii. 10. (Calmet) --- No one...
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_LIFE’S LEVEL PATH_
‘The level path of life … He maketh level all his paths.’
Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 5:21 (R.V.).
I. IT IS A REMARKABLE EXPRESSION—‘THE LEVEL PATH OF LIFE’; and
there is great comfo...
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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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LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER THE PATH OF LIFE,.... Consider and meditate
which is the way to get out of her hands and ways, and escape death,
and obtain eternal life; lest those she has drawn into her w...
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable,
[that] thou canst not know [them].
Ver. 6. _Lest thou shouldest ponder,_] _q.d., _ Lest thou shouldest
persuade thyself that thou m...
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_For the lips of a strange woman_, &c. It concerns thee to get and to
use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold
temptations to which thou art exposed; _drop as a honeycomb_ Her...
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, or, "Far from treading
the pathway of life," HER WAYS ARE MOVABLE, her steps stray from that
which is right and good, THAT THOU CANST NOT KNOW THEM, rather...
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WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...
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1-14 Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from
fleshly lusts. Some, by the adulterous woman, here understand
idolatry, false doctrine, which tends to lead astray men's minds an...
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LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER THE PATH OF LIFE, to prevent thy serious
consideration of the way and manner of rescuing thyself from this
deadly course of life. MOVABLE; various and changeable. She transf...
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Proverbs 5:6 ponder H6424 (H8762) path H734 ways H4570 unstable H5128
(H8804) know H3045 (H8799)
ponde
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THE NEED TO LISTEN TO SOLOMON'S WISDOM AND NOT TO BE ENTICED BY THE
WORDS OF THE STRANGE WOMAN WHICH LEAD TO DEATH AND SLAVERY (PROVERBS
5:1).
The constant reference to the need to avoid the enticemen...
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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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_Her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them._
THE MOVABLE WAYS OF THE TEMPTER
The wiseman lets us know how foolish it is for men to flatter
themselves with the hope that they shall by and b...
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_My son, attend unto my wisdom._
CAUTION AGAINST SEXUAL SINS
The scope of the passage is a warning against seventh-commandment
sins, which youth is so prone to, the temptations to which are so
viole...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:2 The son’s LIPS MAY GUARD KNOWLEDGE,
that is, he should not speak anything that is inconsistent with true
knowledge and wisdom. In contrast, THE LIPS OF A FORBIDDEN WOMAN...
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_ILLUSTRATION OF Proverbs 5:19_
Here we have started up, and sent leaping over the plain, another of
Solomon’s favourites. What elegant creatures those gazelles are, and
how gracefully they bound. We...
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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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2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Proverbs 11:19; Proverbs
4:26;...