Proverbs 6:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart. Not only the outward act but the inward desire is sin (Matthew 5:28; cf. Exodus 20:17). Suppress the first suggestions and voluptuous emotions of the flesh.

Neither let her take thee with her eyelids - with the beauty of her eyelids, and their wanton motion, drawing thee aside from the right way. Oriental females used to paint the eyelids to make the eyes look more beautiful (2 Kings 9:30; Ezekiel 23:40).

Proverbs 6:25

25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.