Proverbs 5:3(v21)For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
Proverbs 7:5(v21)that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Ecclesiastes 9:12(v23)For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are…
2 Kings 4:8(v21)One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed…
Job 13:27(v22)You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
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Psalms 12:2(v21)Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Proverbs 9:18(v23)But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Luke 24:29(v21)They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
Numbers 25:8-9(v23)He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So…
Judges 16:15-17(v21)She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me…
Proverbs 1:17(v23)For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
Proverbs 6:24(v21)to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
Jeremiah 20:2(v22)Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
Acts 14:13(v22)The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice…
Acts 16:24(v22)who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
2 Corinthians 5:14(v21)For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
1 Samuel 28:23(v21)But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So…
Luke 14:23(v21)“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Acts 16:15(v21)When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv22–23Which goeth cheerfully, not knowing that he shall be…
Which goeth cheerfully, not knowing that he shall be chastised.
Which thinking he goeth to the pasture, goeth willingly to his own destruction.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv21–23Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused…
Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Ver. 21. With much fair speech.] Fair words make fools fain. This Circe so enchanted the younker {a} with her fine language, that now she may do what she will with him, for he is wholly at her devotion.
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{a} A young nobleman or gentleman, a youth of high rank.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv21–23With her much fair speech; which implies that her…
With her much fair speech; which implies that her alluring words were more effectual with him than her impudent kisses, which possibly had a little alienated his mind from her.
She caused him to yield; whereby he signifies that no provocation to sin is a sufficient excuse for sin.
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She forced him; she prevailed over him; which argues that there was some reluctancy in his judgment or conscience against it.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv21–23He goeth after her straightway,.... Or "suddenly" (g); and…
He goeth after her straightway,.... Or "suddenly" (g); and inconsiderately, giving himself no time to think of what would be the sad consequences of it;
as an ox goeth to the slaughter; as senseless and stupid as that; and as ignorant of the issue as that is, led by the butcher, as if it was going to a pasture, when it is going to the slaughter house. So such persons as are ensnared by harlots; they follow them in a view of pleasure, but it ends in ruin; if not in the loss of bodily life, by the revengeful husband or civil magistrate; yet in the destruction of their immortal souls;
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or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; a drunken besotted fool, who, while he is leading to the stocks, is insensible whither he is going; but when he has been there awhile, and is come out of his drunken fit, then he is sensible of his punishment and his shame. Or, "as the stocks are for the correction of a fool" (h): or, as a man goes to "the stocks, to the correction of a fool" (i); so the young man went after the harlot: or, as "one fettered" (k), goes thither, bound hand and foot; he cannot help himself, nor avoid the shame. It denotes both the power of sin, there is no withstanding its allurements and blandishments, when once given way to, and the shame that attends or follows it. The Targum is,
"as a dog to a chain;''
and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions.
(g) "subito", Baynus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. (h) "sicut compes ad castigationem stulti", Pagninus, Montanus, Baynus. (i) "Abiens post cam, quasi veniens ad compedes ad castigationem stultorum", Gejerus. (k) "Velut compeditus", Junius & Tremellius; "velut in compede ibat", Michaelis; "tanquam constricto ad pedes capite", Schultens.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv22–23As an ox - Going to it securely, as…
As an ox - Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv21–22Verse 21. With her much fair speech] With her…
Verse 21. With her much fair speech] With her blandishments and lascivious talk, she overcame all his scruples, and constrained him to yield.
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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn v21Pro 7:21-23. With her much fair speech — Which…
Pro 7:21-23. With her much fair speech — Which implies that her alluring words were more effectual with him than her impudent kisses, which possibly had a little alienated his mind from her; she caused him to yield — By this expression Solomon signifies that no provocation to sin is a sufficient excuse for it. With the flattering of her lips she forced him —
She prevailed over him; which argues that there was some reluctance in his judgment, or conscience, against yielding to her. He goeth after her straightway — Without delay or consideration; as an ox goeth to the slaughter — Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture; or as a fool to the correction of the stocks — Or, which is more agreeable to the order of the words in the Hebrew text, as one in fetters, that is, bound with fetters, to the correction of a fool, namely, to receive such correction, or punishment, as belongs to fools. Which may imply, either, 1st, That he hath no more sense of the shame and mischief which he is bringing upon himself than a fool; or, 2d, That he can no more resist the temptation, or avoid the danger, than a man fast tied with chains and fetters can free himself, although his impotency be merely of a moral nature, and therefore voluntary. Till a dart strike through his liver — That is, his vital parts, whereof the liver is one. Till his life be lost, as it is explained in the next clause; as a bird hasteth to the snare — Like a silly bird, which, being greedy of the food laid to entice it, never minds the snare that is laid together with it; so he, eagerly longing to partake of her feast, and the following delights, had not so much as a thought that this was a design upon his life, and would not end but in miseries in finitely greater than all his joys. Dr. Grey, making a slight alteration in the text, renders these verses thus: “He goeth straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth,” &c. “He considers the passage as including four similes, the ox, the dog, the deer, the bird; each of them filly resembling the case of a youth, reduced by an adulterous woman, and hastening to ruin without fear or thought. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of. The LXX. and Syriac read, as a dog to the chains, or as a stag pierced through his liver with a dart.”
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv21–23Fair speech - The Hebrew word is usually translated…
Fair speech - The Hebrew word is usually translated “doctrine,” or “learning” Pro 1:5; Pro 4:2; Pro 9:9; possibly it is used here in keen irony.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn v22Lamb. Protestants, "fool to the correction of the stocks,"…
Lamb. Protestants, "fool to the correction of the stocks," (Haydock) or "like a shackle (abs.) for the chastisement of a fool." (Mont.[Montanus?]) --- Interpreters have read different words. (Calmet) --- Sinners who have given way to temptations, are as inconsiderate as oxen, or birds which hasten to their own ruin. (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv21–23caused . . . yield--or, "inclines."
caused . . . yield--or, "inclines."
flattering--(Compare Pro 5:3).
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forced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples.
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv21–2221. Much fair speech — Literally, her much taking;…
21. Much fair speech — Literally, her much taking; a word sometimes rendered learning, as in Pro_1:5; Pro_4:2; Pro_9:9. Miller quaintly says, “Her taking ways.”
Caused him to yield — The idea is, that she played the orator with him, effectually arousing his passions and leading him captive.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv22–2322. straightway] “Heb. suddenly,” A.V. and R.V. margins. He…
22. straightway] “Heb. suddenly,” A.V. and R.V. margins. He has been as one hesitating on the brink. Now he takes the sudden plunge. “Here is evidently a stroke in the picture of the profoundest psychological truth.” Lange, Comm.
as a fool to the correction of the stocks] This rendering is reached by transposing the Heb. words fool and stocks. The rendering of R.V. text, as fetters to the correction of the fool, is literal, and is taken to mean, as senselessly and as certainly as the dumb instruments of his punishment dog the steps of the fool. The alternative of R.V. marg., as one in fetters, is admissible in grammar, but loses the point of comparison, viz. his entire oblivion of consequences. The reading of the LXX., ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμούς, “as a dog to his chain,” keeps all three comparisons to animals, and at the same time favours the suggestion that the text is corrupt.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv22–23(22) Or as a fool to the correction of…
(22) Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks.—This sense is only gained by a transposition of the original. It has been attempted to translate it literally “and as if in fetters to where one corrects fools,” i.e., to prison.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv21–23Thus far we have had the adulteress introduced speaking;…
Thus far we have had the adulteress introduced speaking; now the narrative proceeds. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield. First, she influenced his mind, and bent his will to her purpose by her evil eloquence. The Hebrew word means "doctrine, or learning devil"s pleading. (Pro_1:5 Pro_9:9) St. Jerome has irretivit, "she netted him;" Septuagint, "She caused him to go astray (apeplanhse ) by much converse." She talked him over, though indeed he had put himself in the way of temptation, and had now no power to resist her seductions. Then with the flattering of her lips she forced him; drew him away. His body followed the lead of his blinded mind; he acceded to her solicitations. Septuagint, "With the snares of her lips she ran him aground (exwkeile ), drove him headlong to ruin."
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Biblical Illustrator1887 · Public DomainOn vv21–23With her much fair speech she caused him to…
Pro_7:21
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield.
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Good and bad speech
There is a force in words which it is often almost impossible to resist. Good words have a wonderful virtue in them to work upon the mind, and a great part of the good which we are called to do in the world is to be accomplished by means of that little member, the tongue. But corrupt minds are often found to have greater intelligence in persuading men to sin because human nature is depraved, and needs only a temptation to draw men to the practice of the worst of evils. No words have greater force in them to persuade men to sin than the flatteries of the strange woman, and therefore the apostle Paul, who directs us to strive against sin, calls loudly to us to flee youthful lusts. Such lusts can scarcely be conquered but by flight, because the temptations to them, when they meet with a simple mind and an impure heart, are like sparks of fire lighting upon stubble fully dry. The force that is in the tongue of the strange woman will not excuse the deluded youth; for his yielding to her is to be attributed to the depravity of his own heart, which inclines him to prefer the advice of a bad woman to the counsels of the Supreme and Eternal Wisdom. (G. Lawson.)
The Biblical Illustrator, edited by Joseph S. Exell (c. 1880s–1900s) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v22He went after her suddenly
He went after her suddenly
This seems to imply that the young man took very little time to think about what he should do. AT: "He quickly decided to go after her" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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like an ox going ... into a snare
The naive and unsuspecting way the young man follows the adulteress is compared to the way three animals are unaware of the danger they are in. (See: Simile)
slaughter
This refers to killing an animal in order to eat its meat.
deer
See how you translated this word in Proverbs 5:19.
until an arrow pierces through its liver
This passage implies that a hunter has trapped the deer in order to shoot it with arrows. AT: "until a hunter shoots it in its most important part" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
liver
Here this organ represents a very important part of the deer's body.
it would cost his life
This is a way of saying that this person will die as a result. AT: "it would kill him" or "he would die soon" (See: Idiom)
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv22–23 Which goeth cheerfully, not knowing that he shall be…
Which goeth cheerfully, not knowing that he shall be chastised.
Which thinking he goeth to the pasture, goeth willingly to his own destruction.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused…
Pro 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Ver. 21. With much fair speech.] Fair words make fools fain. This Circe so enchanted the younker {a} with her fine language, that now she may do what she will with him, for he is wholly at her devotion.
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{a} A young nobleman or gentleman, a youth of high rank.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv21–23 With her much fair speech; which implies that her…
With her much fair speech; which implies that her alluring words were more effectual with him than her impudent kisses, which possibly had a little alienated his mind from her.
She caused him to yield; whereby he signifies that no provocation to sin is a sufficient excuse for sin.
Read full note →
She forced him; she prevailed over him; which argues that there was some reluctancy in his judgment or conscience against it.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv21–23 He goeth after her straightway,.... Or "suddenly" (g); and…
He goeth after her straightway,.... Or "suddenly" (g); and inconsiderately, giving himself no time to think of what would be the sad consequences of it;
as an ox goeth to the slaughter; as senseless and stupid as that; and as ignorant of the issue as that is, led by the butcher, as if it was going to a pasture, when it is going to the slaughter house. So such persons as are ensnared by harlots; they follow them in a view of pleasure, but it ends in ruin; if not in the loss of bodily life, by the revengeful husband or civil magistrate; yet in the destruction of their immortal souls;
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or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; a drunken besotted fool, who, while he is leading to the stocks, is insensible whither he is going; but when he has been there awhile, and is come out of his drunken fit, then he is sensible of his punishment and his shame. Or, "as the stocks are for the correction of a fool" (h): or, as a man goes to "the stocks, to the correction of a fool" (i); so the young man went after the harlot: or, as "one fettered" (k), goes thither, bound hand and foot; he cannot help himself, nor avoid the shame. It denotes both the power of sin, there is no withstanding its allurements and blandishments, when once given way to, and the shame that attends or follows it. The Targum is,
"as a dog to a chain;''
and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions.
(g) "subito", Baynus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis. (h) "sicut compes ad castigationem stulti", Pagninus, Montanus, Baynus. (i) "Abiens post cam, quasi veniens ad compedes ad castigationem stultorum", Gejerus. (k) "Velut compeditus", Junius & Tremellius; "velut in compede ibat", Michaelis; "tanquam constricto ad pedes capite", Schultens.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv22–23 As an ox - Going to it securely, as…
As an ox - Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv21–22 Verse 21. With her much fair speech] With her…
Verse 21. With her much fair speech] With her blandishments and lascivious talk, she overcame all his scruples, and constrained him to yield.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v21 Pro 7:21-23. With her much fair speech — Which…
Pro 7:21-23. With her much fair speech — Which implies that her alluring words were more effectual with him than her impudent kisses, which possibly had a little alienated his mind from her; she caused him to yield — By this expression Solomon signifies that no provocation to sin is a sufficient excuse for it. With the flattering of her lips she forced him —
She prevailed over him; which argues that there was some reluctance in his judgment, or conscience, against yielding to her. He goeth after her straightway — Without delay or consideration; as an ox goeth to the slaughter — Going to it securely, as if it were going to a good pasture; or as a fool to the correction of the stocks — Or, which is more agreeable to the order of the words in the Hebrew text, as one in fetters, that is, bound with fetters, to the correction of a fool, namely, to receive such correction, or punishment, as belongs to fools. Which may imply, either, 1st, That he hath no more sense of the shame and mischief which he is bringing upon himself than a fool; or, 2d, That he can no more resist the temptation, or avoid the danger, than a man fast tied with chains and fetters can free himself, although his impotency be merely of a moral nature, and therefore voluntary. Till a dart strike through his liver — That is, his vital parts, whereof the liver is one. Till his life be lost, as it is explained in the next clause; as a bird hasteth to the snare — Like a silly bird, which, being greedy of the food laid to entice it, never minds the snare that is laid together with it; so he, eagerly longing to partake of her feast, and the following delights, had not so much as a thought that this was a design upon his life, and would not end but in miseries in finitely greater than all his joys. Dr. Grey, making a slight alteration in the text, renders these verses thus: “He goeth straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth,” &c. “He considers the passage as including four similes, the ox, the dog, the deer, the bird; each of them filly resembling the case of a youth, reduced by an adulterous woman, and hastening to ruin without fear or thought. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of. The LXX. and Syriac read, as a dog to the chains, or as a stag pierced through his liver with a dart.”
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Fair speech - The Hebrew word is usually translated…
Fair speech - The Hebrew word is usually translated “doctrine,” or “learning” Pro 1:5; Pro 4:2; Pro 9:9; possibly it is used here in keen irony.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v22 Lamb. Protestants, "fool to the correction of the stocks,"…
Lamb. Protestants, "fool to the correction of the stocks," (Haydock) or "like a shackle (abs.) for the chastisement of a fool." (Mont.[Montanus?]) --- Interpreters have read different words. (Calmet) --- Sinners who have given way to temptations, are as inconsiderate as oxen, or birds which hasten to their own ruin. (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv21–23 caused . . . yield--or, "inclines."
caused . . . yield--or, "inclines."
flattering--(Compare Pro 5:3).
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forced him--by persuasion overcoming his scruples.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv21–22 21. Much fair speech — Literally, her much taking;…
21. Much fair speech — Literally, her much taking; a word sometimes rendered learning, as in Pro_1:5; Pro_4:2; Pro_9:9. Miller quaintly says, “Her taking ways.”
Caused him to yield — The idea is, that she played the orator with him, effectually arousing his passions and leading him captive.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv22–23 22. straightway] “Heb. suddenly,” A.V. and R.V. margins. He…
22. straightway] “Heb. suddenly,” A.V. and R.V. margins. He has been as one hesitating on the brink. Now he takes the sudden plunge. “Here is evidently a stroke in the picture of the profoundest psychological truth.” Lange, Comm.
as a fool to the correction of the stocks] This rendering is reached by transposing the Heb. words fool and stocks. The rendering of R.V. text, as fetters to the correction of the fool, is literal, and is taken to mean, as senselessly and as certainly as the dumb instruments of his punishment dog the steps of the fool. The alternative of R.V. marg., as one in fetters, is admissible in grammar, but loses the point of comparison, viz. his entire oblivion of consequences. The reading of the LXX., ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμούς, “as a dog to his chain,” keeps all three comparisons to animals, and at the same time favours the suggestion that the text is corrupt.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv22–23 (22) Or as a fool to the correction of…
(22) Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks.—This sense is only gained by a transposition of the original. It has been attempted to translate it literally “and as if in fetters to where one corrects fools,” i.e., to prison.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Thus far we have had the adulteress introduced speaking;…
Thus far we have had the adulteress introduced speaking; now the narrative proceeds. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield. First, she influenced his mind, and bent his will to her purpose by her evil eloquence. The Hebrew word means "doctrine, or learning devil"s pleading. (Pro_1:5 Pro_9:9) St. Jerome has irretivit, "she netted him;" Septuagint, "She caused him to go astray (apeplanhse ) by much converse." She talked him over, though indeed he had put himself in the way of temptation, and had now no power to resist her seductions. Then with the flattering of her lips she forced him; drew him away. His body followed the lead of his blinded mind; he acceded to her solicitations. Septuagint, "With the snares of her lips she ran him aground (exwkeile ), drove him headlong to ruin."
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv21–23 With her much fair speech she caused him to…
Pro_7:21
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield.
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Good and bad speech
There is a force in words which it is often almost impossible to resist. Good words have a wonderful virtue in them to work upon the mind, and a great part of the good which we are called to do in the world is to be accomplished by means of that little member, the tongue. But corrupt minds are often found to have greater intelligence in persuading men to sin because human nature is depraved, and needs only a temptation to draw men to the practice of the worst of evils. No words have greater force in them to persuade men to sin than the flatteries of the strange woman, and therefore the apostle Paul, who directs us to strive against sin, calls loudly to us to flee youthful lusts. Such lusts can scarcely be conquered but by flight, because the temptations to them, when they meet with a simple mind and an impure heart, are like sparks of fire lighting upon stubble fully dry. The force that is in the tongue of the strange woman will not excuse the deluded youth; for his yielding to her is to be attributed to the depravity of his own heart, which inclines him to prefer the advice of a bad woman to the counsels of the Supreme and Eternal Wisdom. (G. Lawson.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v22 He went after her suddenly
He went after her suddenly
This seems to imply that the young man took very little time to think about what he should do. AT: "He quickly decided to go after her" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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like an ox going ... into a snare
The naive and unsuspecting way the young man follows the adulteress is compared to the way three animals are unaware of the danger they are in. (See: Simile)
slaughter
This refers to killing an animal in order to eat its meat.
deer
See how you translated this word in Proverbs 5:19.
until an arrow pierces through its liver
This passage implies that a hunter has trapped the deer in order to shoot it with arrows. AT: "until a hunter shoots it in its most important part" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
liver
Here this organ represents a very important part of the deer's body.
it would cost his life
This is a way of saying that this person will die as a result. AT: "it would kill him" or "he would die soon" (See: Idiom)
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cow
slaughter
bow and arrow
life
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v21 7:21-23 The naive young man’s foolish actions might cost…
7:21-23 The naive young man’s foolish actions might cost him his life (see 5:11; 6:32-35).
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