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Proverbs 5:6

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. She lives by her emotions. She has forgotten God. She does not know where her life will lead. She does not even know that her actions are wrong.

We have heard God’s law. We know what is wise. We must trust God. We must not copy people like this woman.

v7 Now, my sons, listen to me!

Do not turn aside from my words!

v8 Choose a path that does not go near this woman’s house!

Keep away from her door!

v9 Do not waste the strength of your youth!

Do not give your best years to someone who is cruel!

v10 Do not let other people enjoy your wealth!

Do not work like a slave to make another man wealthy!

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See also Proverbs 5:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LEST THOU SHOULDEST PONDER. Render: So that she findeth not the level path of life; her ways are unstable and she knoweth it not....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    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].'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים פֶּן ־תְּפַלֵּ֑ס נָע֥וּ מַ֝עְגְּלֹתֶ֗יהָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 5:6 ponder H6424 (H8762) path H734 ways H4570 unstable H5128 (H8804) know H3045 (H8799) ponde

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Proverbs 11:19; Proverbs 4:26;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lest — To prevent thy serious consideration. Moveable — She transforms herself into several shapes, and has a thousand arts to ensnare. Know — Thou canst not discover all her practice....

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