“ That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. ”
And that thy lips may keep - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”
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...
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".
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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 fornicat...
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 i...
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...
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...
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 V...
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...
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...
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
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...
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
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 ; Psalms 71:15 ; Song of Solomon 4:11