“ And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ”
Yet one more curse is attendant on impurity. Then, as now, disease was the penalty of this sin.
Proverbs 5:1-9 ; Proverbs 5:10-19 ; Proverbs 5:20-23 . Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3 . The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the desc...
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed - The word שאר shear, which we render body, signifies properly the remains, residue, or...
And thou mourn at the last— When in the decline of life thou shalt be without strength, without vigour, without children, without support, without resource. We must recollect the great desire which...
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed. "At the last" - namely, when the final consequences...
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, o...
When thy flesh and thy body are consumed. — Ruin of health has followed ruin of property.
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...
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 ma...
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...
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...
And thou mourn at the last ,.... Or roar as a lion, as the word s signifies; see Proverbs 19:12 ; expressing great distress of mind, horror of conscience, and vehement lamentations; and yet not hav...
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, Ver. 11. And thou mourn at the last. ] Heb., And thou roar; as being upon the rack of an evil conscience, and in the suburbs o...
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...
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
Thou mourn at the last; bitterly bewail thy own madness and misery when it is too late. Thy flesh and thy body; thy flesh, even thy body; the particle and being put expositively. Consumed by th...
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 5:1-14 ). The constant reference to the need to avoid the...
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....
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 woma...
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 vi...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 5:1-20 8. Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and commendation of marriage. The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a subject which he has glanced...
Warning against Wantonness
1 Corinthians 5:4 ; 1 Corinthians 5:5 ; Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Hebrews 13:4 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Numbers 5:27 ; Proverbs 7:23 ; Revelation 21:8 ; Revelation 22:15 ; Romans 6:21