{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/pro005.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/pro005.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/pro005.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nThis connection of wisdom and understanding is frequent (Pro 2:2; Pro 3:7); the first denotes the use of wise means for wise ends; the other, the exercise of a proper discrimination in their discovery.\nregard--or, \"observe.\"\nkeep--preserve constantly.\n(Compare Pro 2:16). Her enticing promises are deceitful.\nher end--literally, \"her future,\" in sense of reward, what follows (compare Psa 37:37; Psa 73:17). Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those of Pro 5:3. The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate are notoriously terrible.\nfeet . . . , steps--that is, course of life ends in death.\nher ways . . . know--Some prefer, \"that she may not ponder the path of life,\" &c.; but perhaps a better sense is, \"her ways are varied, so as to prevent your knowledge of her true character, and so of true happiness.\"\nAvoid the slightest temptation.\nthine honour--in whatever consisting, strength (Pro 3:13) or wealth.\nthy years--by cutting them off in dissipation.\nunto the cruel--for such the sensual are apt to become.\nwealth--literally, \"strength,\" or the result of it.\nlabours--the fruit of thy painful exertions (Psa 127:2). There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death due the adulterer (Deu 22:22).\nat the last--the end, or reward (compare Pro 5:4).\nmourn--roar in pain.\nflesh and . . . body--the whole person under incurable disease.\nThe ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.\nevil--for affliction, as in Gen 19:20; Gen 49:15.\nBy figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain [Pro 5:15, Pro 5:18] represent the wife, and rivers of waters [Pro 5:16] the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In Pro 5:16, fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, \"what is from a spring,\" and corresponds with \"rivers of waters.\"\nonly thine own--harlots' children have no known father.\nwife . . . youth--married in youth.\nloving . . . roe--other figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals.\nbreasts--(Compare Sol 1:13; Eze 23:3, Eze 23:8).\nravished--literally, \"intoxicated,\" that is, fully satisfied.\nThe reason, God's eye is on you,\nand He will cause sin to bring its punishment.\nwithout instruction--literally, \"in want of instruction,\" having refused it (compare Job 13:18; Heb 11:24).\ngo astray--literally, \"be drunken.\" The word \"ravished\" (Pro 5:19) here denotes fulness of punishment.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 5","type":"page"}