Proverbs 5:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. ”

Proverbs 5:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or (with the Septuagint and Vulgate), Lest she should ponder (or “She ponders not”) the way of life, her paths move to and fro (unsteady as an earthquake); she knows not. The words describe with a...
Proverbs 5:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are (d) moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them]. (d) She has always new means to allure to wickedness.
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lest thou shouldest ponder. Render: So that she findeth not the level path of life; her ways are unstable and she knoweth it not.
Proverbs 5:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them . Lest thou shouldest ponder - To prevent thee from reflecting on thy present conduct, and its con...
Proverbs 5:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life— Houbigant renders this, She is far from following the way of life: her steps wander whither she herself knoweth not: which is very like the Chaldee. T...
Proverbs 5:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, (that) thou canst not kn...
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder ... — The meaning of the English version appears to be, “To prevent thy choosing the path of life, she leads thee by devious paths that thou knowest not where thou art.” I...
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:6 - 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 ma...
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LIFE’S LEVEL PATH ‘The level path of life … He maketh level all his paths.’ Proverbs 5:6 ; Proverbs 5:21 (R.V.). I. It is a remarkable expression—‘the level path of life’; and there is gr...
Proverbs 5:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life ,.... Consider and meditate which is the way to get out of her hands and ways, and escape death, and obtain eternal life; lest those she has drawn into he...
Proverbs 5:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them]. Ver. 6. Lest thou shouldest ponder, ] q.d., Lest thou shouldest persuade thyself that thou...
Proverbs 5:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the lips of a strange woman , &c. It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those manifold temptations to which thou art exposed; drop as a honeycomb...
Proverbs 5:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understa...
Proverbs 5:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, to prevent thy serious consideration of the way and manner of rescuing thyself from this deadly course of life. Movable; various and changeable. She t...
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:1-14 ). The constant reference to the need to avoid the...
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:6 - 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 5:6 - 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 vi...
Proverbs 5:6 - 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 5:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Warning against Wantonness
Proverbs 5:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 2:10 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:9 ; Proverbs 11:19 ; Proverbs 4:26 ; Proverbs 6:12 ; Proverbs 6:13 ; Proverbs 7:10-21 ; Psalms 119:59 ; Psalms 16:11
Proverbs 5:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lest — To prevent thy serious consideration. Moveable — She transforms herself into several shapes, and has a thousand arts to ensnare. Know — Thou canst not discover all her practice.

Proverbs 5:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 5:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 5:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 5:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 5:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 5:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 5:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 5:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 5:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 5:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 5:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 5:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 5:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 5:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes