Proverbs 31:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Thy strength; the rigour of thy mind and body, which is greatly impaired by inordinate lusts, as all physicians agree, and frequent experience showeth. Thy ways; thy conversation or course of life. To that which destroyeth kings; the same thing repeated in other words, as is very usual in these books; to the immoderate love of women, which is most destructive to kings and kingdoms, as was well known to Solomon by the example of his father David, and by many other sad instances left upon record in all histories.

Proverbs 31:3

3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.