Proverbs 6:32-Habakkuk

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 6:1-35

Now let us turn to Proverbs, chapter 6. The first part of the Proverbs is exhortation to my son. It's just good fatherly advice to sons. And chapter 6 continues in these exhortations that are opened by the phrase:My son, if you be surety for thy friend, or if you have stricken hands with a stranger, you've become snared with the words of your mouth, you've been taken with the words of your mouth. Now do this, and deliver yourself, my son, when you've come to the hand of your friend; go, and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 6:1-35

Proverbs 6:1 . If thou be surety for thy friend. If charity has gained an ascendancy over the judgment, prepare to perform thy covenant. To aid a friend in poverty is a generous deed, it is lending without hope: but to bind one’s self in cases of speculation may incur a serious loss, without real advantage to another. Proverbs 6:3 . When thou art come into the hand of thy friend. The sense is intricate. The LXX read, When thou art come into the hands of rigorous men for thy friend; go,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 6:32

Proverbs 6:32He that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.The suicide of the soulLovely as maiden purity is, and crowned with benedictions though it is by Christ, we have here to learn its excellence and fear its loss, by the sad, stern picture of impurity and shameless sin. In these sad proverbs of purity the wise man pictures to us in fearful personification wisdom’s rival standing in the same great thoroughfares of earth and bidding to her shameful pleasures the simple youth who throng the broad... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 6:32

Proverbs 6:32 [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Ver. 32. Lacketh understanding. ] Being wholly carried by sensual appetite, against the dictates both of religion and of reason. Beetles love dunghills better than ointments, and swine love mud better than a garden. Luther tells of a certain noble in his country so besotted with the sin of whoredom, he was not ashamed to say, that if he might ever live here, and be... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 6:32

lacketh: Proverbs 7:7, Genesis 39:9, Genesis 39:10, Genesis 41:39, Ecclesiastes 7:25, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Jeremiah 5:8, Jeremiah 5:21, Romans 1:22-Jeremiah : understanding: Heb. heart, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 4:12 destroyeth: Proverbs 2:18, Proverbs 2:19, Proverbs 5:22, Proverbs 5:23, Proverbs 7:22, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 8:36, Proverbs 9:16-Job :, Ezekiel 18:31, Hosea 13:9, Hebrews 13:4 Reciprocal: Genesis 39:8 - refused Deuteronomy 5:18 - General 2 Samuel 12:10 - hast taken Job 24:15 - eye Job... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 6:32

32. Whose committeth adultery, taking all the circumstances and consequences into the account, acts like a madman or simpleton like one who seeks to destroy his own life. Unlike the thief who steals to satisfy his hunger, he unnecessarily robs a man of his wife, and when discovered will not merely lose his property, but forfeit his life. See Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22. The argument here is a fortiori, from the less to the greater. If a thief is punished for stealing to satisfy his... read more