Proverbs 5:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? ”

Proverbs 5:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Emphasis is laid (see the Proverbs 2:16 note) upon the origin of the beguiler.
Proverbs 5:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Proverbs 5:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

strange . apostate. Hebrew. zur . See note on Proverbs 5:3 . stranger . alien or foreigner. Hebrew. nakar. See note on verses: Proverbs 5:3 ; Proverbs 5:10 .
Proverbs 5:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs 5:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stran...
Proverbs 5:20 - 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, o...
Proverbs 5:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(15-20) Drink waters out of thine own cistern ... — In these verses Solomon urges his disciples to follow after purity in the married life; he pictures in vivid terms the delights which it affords a...
Proverbs 5:20 - 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...
Proverbs 5:20 - 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...
Proverbs 5:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strang...
Proverbs 5:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman ,.... Or "err with her" y; after all those inconveniences and miseries that follow upon a conversation with a harlot, and all those advant...
Proverbs 5:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? Ver. 20. And why wilt thou, my son? ] The premises considered, there is no reason for it, but all...
Proverbs 5:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And why wilt thou be ravished with a strange woman? Consider a little, and deny, if thou canst, that it is an unaccountable folly to seek that satisfaction and comfort in a vile harlot, which thou...
Proverbs 5:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Le...
Proverbs 5:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Why wilt thou destroy and damn thyself for those delights which thou mayst enjoy without sin or danger?
Proverbs 5:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Solomon Calls On His Son To Be Faithful To His True Wife, And To Obtain His Sexual Enjoyments From Her ( Proverbs 5:15-20 ). In contrast Solomon now brings home to ‘his son' ( Proverbs 5:20 ) the...
Proverbs 5:20 - 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....
Proverbs 5:20 - 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 woma...
Proverbs 5:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Proverbs 5:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Chastity Contrasted with Unchastity
Proverbs 5:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:1 ; Proverbs 2:16-19 ; Proverbs 22:14 ; Proverbs 23:27 ; Proverbs 23:28 ; Proverbs 23:33 ; Proverbs 6:24 ; Proverbs 7:5

Proverbs 5:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 5:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 5:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 5:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 5:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 5:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 5:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 5:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 5:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge