28She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go . Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: “ Here, my son, and be wise , Prov. 23:19. This will be an evidence that tho…
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