“ Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: ”
Thine honor - i. e., “The grace and freshness of thy youth” (compare Hosea 14:6 ; Daniel 10:8 ). The thought of this is to guard the young man against the sins that stain and mar it. The slave...
Lest thou give thine (e) honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: (e) That is, your strength and goods to her who will have no pity on you as is read of Samson and the prodigal son.
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...
years. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for what happens in them.
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest thou give thine honor - The character of a debauchee is universally detested: by this, even those of noble blood lose their...
Lest thou give thine honour unto others— The word others אחרים acheirim, denoted, among the Israelites, strangers; aliens from the true religion, and also its enemies. I suppose it has respec...
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest thou give thine honour unto others. "Thine honour" - i:e., thy chastity and purity. Maurer takes the Hebrew as it m...
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...
Thine honour. — Rather, freshness, vigour. Thy years. — The best years of thy life. Unto the cruel. — That is the temptress herself, or her hangers-on and associates, whose sole idea is plu...
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...
Lest thou give thine honour unto others ,.... To strumpets, their children, attendants, servants, and friends; that is, either wealth or riches, which make men honourable; or their three, credit, an...
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Ver. 9. Lest thou give thine honour, ] i.e., Whatsoever within thee, or without thee, may make thee honourable or esteemed...
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...
Thine honour; thy dignity and reputation, the strength and rigour of thy body and mind, which is an honour to a man, and which are commonly wasted by adulterous practices. Unto others; unto whore...
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
Genesis 38:23-26 ; Hosea 4:13 ; Hosea 4:14 ; Judges 16:19-21 ; Nehemiah 13:26 ; Proverbs 6:29-35
Honour — Thy dignity and reputation, the strength of thy body and mind. Years — The flower of thine age. The cruel — To the harlot, who though she pretends love, yet in truth is one of the most cru...