Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
Parallel Translations
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Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
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Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Proverbs 7:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 5:8 Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,
- Proverbs 6:25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
- Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Matthew 5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Psalms 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Proverbs 4:14-15 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
- Proverbs 5:23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
- Proverbs 23:31-33 Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her…
Pro 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Ver. 25. Let not thine heart.] Think not of her, lust not after her. Thoughts and affections are sibi mutuo causae. "While I mused the fire burned," {Psa 39:3} so that thoughts kindle affections, and these cause thoughts to boil. See Job 31:1. See therefore that evil thoughts, though they rush into the heart, yet they rest not in it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Decline to her ways; either to the paths which…
Decline to her ways; either to the paths which lead to her house, or to her manner of living.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For she hath cast down many wounded,.... Wounded in…
For she hath cast down many wounded,.... Wounded in their name, character, and reputation; in their bodies by diseases; and in their souls by guilt, shame, and horror, through a compliance with her sinful lusts: these she "cast down" from the honours they were possessed of, from the health they enjoyed, and from the peace and tranquillity of mind they formerly felt within them. And not a single person, as the young man instanced in, or a few only, but "many"; great multitudes, hundreds and thousands, and those not weak, and foolish, and inconstant, as he might be thought to be; but such as were "great" (m) and mighty, as the word also signifies; men of great riches, and wisdom, and courage; as soldiers (n), mighty men of war, such as wound and kill others; which seems the true sense of the word here used: and therefore none ought to trust in themselves, nor trust themselves in her company, nor in the least decline to her ways; and especially such as are weak and unskilful, and ignorant of her devices, as the "children" here addressed;
yea, many strong men have been slain by her; men famous for martial exploits, as Samson and others, have been overcome by her: some of great fortitude of mind have not been able to withstand her, she has prevailed over them; and others of robust constitutions have been weakened by diseases, contracted through incontinency with her; and some have suffered death by her means, either from her husband, or her gallants, or the civil magistrate: and of these there have been "innumerable" instances; so the word (o) for "strong men" sometimes signifies; and so it is here rendered in the Septuagint and Arabic versions, "and innumerable are they whom she has slain". All the world have wondered after the whore of Rome; kings of the earth and mighty men have committed fornication with her; high and low, rich and poor, have been ruined by her; thousands have gone to hell by her means; and some of the sycophants of Rome have even said, that if the pope of Rome should send thousands to hell, of which they seem themselves to be conscious, no one should say to him, What dost thou?
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(m) "multos magnosque", Gejerus. (n) See Dr. Kennicott's Dissert. 1. p. 110. (o) Sept. so Arab. "numerosi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Amama, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens; so Bootius, Animadv. l. 4. c. 11. s. 2.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Let not thine heart decline to her ways. The…
Let not thine heart decline to her ways. The verb satah is used in Pro_4:15 (where see note) of turning aside from evil; but here, as Delitzsch notes, it is especially appropriate to the case of a faithless wife whose transgression, or declension from virtue, is described by this term. (Num_5:12) Go not astray in her paths. The LXX (in most manuscripts) has only one rendering for the two clauses: "Let not thine heart incline unto her ways."
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