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AND THAT THY LIPS MAY KEEP - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”...
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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 spiri...
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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 Proverbs 5:3. The subject
is the praise of Wisdom, and the description of the blessi...
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REGARD DISCRETION, &C. Hebrew infinitive. to guard deep counsels and
knowledge. Let them mount guard over thy lips. Compare James 3:8, "the
tongue can no man tame"....
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_regard_ Rather, PRESERVE, R.V. Comp. _keep_in the parallel clause of
the verse....
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THAT THY LIPS MAY KEEP KNOWLEDGE— The LXX read, _The understanding
of my lips commands thee; have nothing to do with a strange woman; for
honey distilleth from the lips of a woman who is a fornicator,...
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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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That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep
knowledge.
THAT THOU MAYEST REGARD DISCRETION, AND (THAT) THY LIPS MAY KEEP
KNOWLEDGE - that they lips may have a discreet and intell...
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5:2 reflection, (f-5) Or 'well-considered thoughts,' it is plural. for
singular see ch. 1.4, 'discretion.'...
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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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Solomon begins his lesson in the usual way. He reminds us why we need
wisdom and knowledge. With wisdom and knowledge, we can avoid danger....
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לִ שְׁמֹ֥ר מְזִמֹּ֑ות וְ֝ דַ֗עַת
שְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ יִנְצֹֽרוּ׃...
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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 manifes...
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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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_Thoughts. Or wisdom; and act with discretion. --- Mind, &c., is
omitted in Hebrew and St. Jerome. (Calmet) --- By woman all
concupiscence, or the inducement to sin, is commonly understood. We
must no...
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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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THAT THOU MAYEST REGARD DISCRETION,.... Observe it; retain it in thine
heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act
discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the
Vulg...
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That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep
knowledge.
Ver. 2. _That thou mayest regard discretion._] Or, That thou mayest
keep in thy thoughts, as Job did, Job 31:1 "Why then sh...
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_My son, attend unto my wisdom_ “There being nothing,” says Bishop
Patrick, “to which youth is so prone as to give up themselves to
satisfy their fleshly desires, and nothing proving so pernicious to...
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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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REGARD, or, _keep_, i.e. hold fast, as it is in the next clause.
_Discretion_; spiritual wisdom for the conduct of thy life, as this
word is used PROVERBS 1:4, and elsewhere in this book. THAT THY LIP...
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Proverbs 5:2 preserve H8104 (H8800) discretion H4209 lips H8193 keep
H5341 (H8799) knowledge H1847
thy lips - Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs
16:23, Proverbs 20:15;...
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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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_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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Malachi 2:6; Malachi 2:7; Proverbs 10:21; Proverbs 15:2; Proverbs
15:7; Proverbs 16:23; Proverbs 20:15; Psalms 119:13; Psalms 45:2; Psa