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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:14

He has only just escaped being brought before the assembly of the people, who would have sentenced him to death (Leviticus 20:19; Deuteronomy 22:22).

15-17. A man's pleasures should be sought at home. Read, with RV, 'Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets?'

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See also Proverbs 5:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 5:14. _I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL_] This vice, like a whirlpool, sweeps all others into its vortex. _IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND ASSEMBLY._] _In the mydel of_ _the Curche and o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The conscience-stricken sinner had been “almost” given up to every form of evil in the sight of the whole assembly of fellow-townsmen; “almost,” therefore, condemned to the death which that assembly m...

  • 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

    I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL. The _Beth Essentiae_ denotes "in", in the sense of "as". I soon became as an evil man, &c. See App-75. ALMOST. in. little while. Hebrew. _kim'at._ Occurs eighteen times (Gene...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I was almost in all evil_ Ewald and other commentators take this to mean, I had a narrow escape from incurring the extreme penalty which the law of Moses prescribes for this sin (Leviticus 20:10): I...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The pangs of remorse and the upbraidings of conscience form the terrible climax to the loss of honour and health and substance. " -Going down to the chambers of death," wise too late, the victim of h...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL— _I am plunged into almost all evils in the midst of the assembly of my people._ Calmet. Houbigant renders it, _I am well nigh become the most miserable of all those amongst w...

  • 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

    I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL-IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION AND ASSEMBLY. There was scarcely any sin that I did not engage in;...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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,...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses teach us the result, if we live for our desires. In the end our wrong desires will ruin us. They will bring us to despair. Solomon warns his son. He explains what will happen to a foolis...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL... — Rather, _I had almost fallen into every sin: I was so infatuated that I might have committed any sin, and that openly before all._ Or, _I might have been visited with ext...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֭ מְעַט הָיִ֣יתִי בְ כָל ־רָ֑ע בְּ

  • 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

    I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (g) assembly. (g) Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by goo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. (Calmet) --- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint. (Menochius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy...

  • 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

    I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL,.... Scarce a sin but he was guilty of; contempt of private and public instructions, the instructions of parents and ministers of the Gospel, and following lewd women, commonl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. Ver. 14. _I was almost in all evil._] Abraham Ben Ezra reads it in the future tense, _Brevi ero in omni malo,_ I shall shortly...

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

    _Come not nigh the door of her house_ Lest thine eyes affect thy heart, and her allurements prevail over thee. _Lest thou give thine honour_ Thy dignity and reputation, the strength and vigour of thy...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly, literally, "Almost I had been in the extremity of evil in the midst of assembly and congregation," that is, he had just barely e...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST WANTONNESS...

  • 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

    I WAS ALMOST IN ALL EVIL. Oh what a miserable man am I! There is scarce any misery, in respect of estate, or body, or soul, into which I am not already plunged. The words also are and may well be rend...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 5:14 verge H4592 ruin H7451 midst H8432 assembly H6951 congregation H5712 Proverbs 13:20;...

  • 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

    _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 5:9 The man who follows after the forbidden woman will see others take away from him the things that he himself should have enjoyed later in life (HONOR and YEARS, v....

  • 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

    1 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Peter 2:10; Hosea 4:11; Jude 1:7; Numbers 2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A moment — In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly — And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things....

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