15. Broken Shivered, dashed to pieces. This verse expresses more forcibly and in a clearer manner the idea of Proverbs 6:11. Comp. Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 1:28; Isaiah 30:14; Jeremiah 19:11; Job 40:11. read more
ADMONITIONS AGAINST THE PRACTICE OF SEVEN HATEFUL THINGS, Proverbs 6:16-19. Here the teacher seeks to guard his charge against personal vices, as he had before against associational ones. 16-19. Six things… yea, seven, are specified. These are favourite forms with the Hebrews, and the numbers are not always used definitely. The expression is, perhaps, equivalent to our “six or seven,” meaning several. The origin of this peculiar proverbial form, the using of symbolical numbers, Elster... read more
EXHORTATION TO FILIAL OBEDIENCE, AND ADDITIONAL CAUTIONS AGAINST LEWDNESS, Proverbs 6:20-35. 20. My son, etc. See Proverbs 1:8 for substantially the same formula. Compare, also, Proverbs 3:3. read more
21. Bind them, etc. Meaning, Treasure them in your affections; never be ashamed of them or the practice of them; they are your highest ornaments. In the East, where reverence for parents and ancestors is very great, it is a sufficient reason for any custom or practice that one’s fathers or ancestors enjoined it. If parental precepts in general are held sacred, how much more such as these, which are sacred in themselves? Comp. Jeremiah 35:18, the Rechabites. read more
22. It Literally, she. Some suppose it spoken of wisdom personified. Blessed is the youth that respects his parents and their wholesome precepts. read more
23. Reproofs of instruction Instructive reproofs, or restraining admonitions. Youth is self-willed, inclined to throw off restraints of law, and to indulge in sensual gratifications. An observance of parental commands, which, it is hinted, are also the law of God, will direct in all dark and dubious cases, and restrain from that which is dangerous. Way of life Tend to life. On the first part of the verse compare Psalms 19:8, and Psalms 119:105. read more
24. To keep thee A special application of the above. One object of pious parental care and training is to preserve from base, sensual gratification. And as it should be one of the highest aims of parental solicitude to guard the youth of their households from base desires and practices, so it is one of the chief efforts of the royal sage and father in this work to describe and illustrate the terrible evils of lawless lust. Hence he returns to it again and again, and presents it under a... read more
25. Take thee with her eyelids Captivate with her eyelids. Oriental women paint their eyebrows and eyelids, giving, as is thought, great artificial beauty to them. A writer who had seen them says, “Their eyes appear to be swimming in bliss. Arab poetry is full of praise of this kind of beauty.” Bible Commentary. See note and illustration on Job 42:14, page 301. read more
26. This verse is difficult because of the supposed ellipsis, and is variously rendered by the versions and critics. The ellipsis indicated by the italics renders the meaning doubtful. The meaning most approved is, that licentiousness leads to starvation, even to a last morsel of bread. There is no verb in the first member of the verse, and one must be supposed, it is possible that תצוד , tatsudh, in the latter clause, rendered will hunt, (better, lies in wait, or, lays snares,) or... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.Rage — It enflames a man with rage.In the day — When he hath an opportunity to avenge himself. read more