Chapter 5
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
attend
2:1 4:1,20 Matthew 3:9 Mark 4:23 Revelation 2:7,11,17,29 3:6,13,22
bow
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
thy lips
10:21 15:2,7 16:23 20:15 Psalms 45:2 71:15 119:13 Song of Solomon 4:11 Malachi 2:6,7
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
the lips
2:16 6:24 7:21 Revelation 17:2-6
mouth
Heb. palate. smoother.
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
her
6:24-35 7:22,23 9:18 23:27,28 Ecclesiastes 7:26 Hebrews 12:15,16
sharp
Judges 16:4-6,15-21 Psalms 55:21 Hebrews 4:12
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
ponder
the path
her
6:12,13 7:10-21 2 Thessalonians 2:9,10
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Hear
4:1 8:32-36 22:17-21 Hebrews 12:25
and depart
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
4:15 6:27,28 Matthew 6:13 Ephesians 5:11
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
6:29-35 Genesis 38:23-26 Judges 16:19-21 Nehemiah 13:26 Hosea 4:13,14
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
strangers
wealth
Heb. strength.
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
thou
7:23 Deuteronomy 32:29 Jeremiah 5:31 Romans 6:21 Hebrews 13:4 Revelation 21:8 22:15
when
Numbers 5:27 1 Corinthians 5:4,5
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
How
1:7,22,29,30 15:5 Psalms 50:17 73:22 Zechariah 7:11-14 John 3:19,20
and my
1:25 6:23 12:1 13:18 Genesis 19:9 Exodus 2:13,14 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 25:16 2 Chronicles 33:10,11 36:16 Jeremiah 44:4 Zechariah 1:4-6
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Luke 15:18 1 Thessalonians 4:8 5:12,13 Hebrews 13:7
I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
13:20 Numbers 25:1-6 Hosea 4:11-14 1 Corinthians 10:6-8 2 Peter 2:10-18 Jude 1:7-13
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
18,19 1 Corinthians 7:2-5 Hebrews 13:4
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
thy
Deuteronomy 33:28 Psalms 68:26 Isaiah 48:21
dispersed
Genesis 24:60 Judges 12:9 Psalms 127:3 128:3
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
rejoice
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Malachi 2:14,15
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
as the
Song of Solomon 2:9 4:5 7:3 8:14
satisfy thee
Heb. water thee.
be thou ravished always with her love
Heb. err thou always in her love.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
with
2:16-19 6:24 7:5 22:14 23:27,28,33 1 Kings 11:1
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
15:3 2 Chronicles 16:9 Job 31:4 34:21 Psalms 11:4 17:3 139:1-12 Jeremiah 16:17 Jeremiah 17:10 23:24 32:19 Hosea 7:2 Hebrews 4:13 Revelation 2:18,23
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
His
1:18,31 11:3,5 Psalms 7:15,16 9:15 Jeremiah 2:19 Hosea 4:11-14 Galatians 6:7,8
holden
sins
Heb. sin.
1 Corinthians 5:9,10 Galatians 5:19-21 Ephesians 5:5,6 Hebrews 13:4
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.