Solomon exhorts to wisdom, 1,2; He shows the mischief of
whoredom and riot,3-14; He exhorts to contentedness,
liberality, and chastity, 15-21; The wicked are overtaken with
their own sins 22,23;
attend 2:1 4:1,20 Mt 3:9 Mr 4:23 Re 2:7,11,29 3:6,13,22

bow 22:17 Jas 1:19

2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

thy lips 10:21 15:2,7 16:23 20:15 Ps 45:2 71:15 119:13 So 4:11 Mal 2:6,7

3 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 Re 17:2-6

smoother Ps 55:21

4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

her 6:24-35 7:22,23 9:18 23:27,28 Ec 7:26 Heb 12:15,16

sharp Jud 16:4-6,15-21 Ps 55:21 Heb 4:12

5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

2:18,19 7:27

6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

ponder 4:26 Ps 119:59

the path Pr 11:19 Ps 16:11

her 6:12,13 7:10-21 2Th 2:9,10

7 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 Heb 12:25

and depart 3:21 4:21

8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

4:15 6:27,28 Mt 6:13 Eph 5:11

9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

6:29-35 Ge 38:23-26 Jud 16:19-21 Ne 13:26 Ho 4:13,14

10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

strangers 6:35 Ho 7:9 Lu 15:30

wealth 31:3

11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

thou 7:23 De 32:29 Jer 5:31 Ro 6:21 Heb 13:4 Re 21:8 22:15

when Nu 5:27 1Co 5:4,5

12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

how 1:7,22,29,30 15:5 Ps 50:17 73:22 Zec 7:11-14 Joh 3:19,20

and my 1:25 6:23 12:1 13:18 Ge 19:9 Ex 2:13,14 2Ch 24:20-22 25:16 33:10,11 36:16 Jer 44:4 Zec 1:4-6

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Lu 15:18 1Th 4:8 5:12,13 Heb 13:7

14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

13:20 Nu 25:1-6 Ho 4:11-14 1Ch 10:6-8 2Pe 2:10-18 Jude 1:7-13

15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

5:18,19 1Co 7:2-5 Heb 13:4

16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

thy De 33:28 Ps 68:26 Isa 48:21

dispersed Ge 24:60 Jud 12:9 Ps 127:3 128:3

17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

rejoice Ec 9:9 Mal 2:14,15

19 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 So 2:9 4:5 7:3 8:14

satisfy thee or water thee 5:15

be thou always ravished with her love
2sa 12:4;

20 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 1Ki 11:1

21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

15:3 2Ch 16:9 Job 31:4 34:21 Ps 11:4 17:3 139:1-12 Jer 16:17 17:10 23:24 32:19 Ho 7:2 Heb 4:13 Re 2:18,23

22 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 Ps 7:15,16 9:15 Jer 2:19 Ho 4:11-14 Ga 6:7,8

holden Ec 7:26

sins 1Co 5:9,10 Ga 5:19-21 Eph 5:5,6 Heb 13:4

23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

shall die 10:21 14:32 Job 4:21 36:12

in the 14:14 Ps 81:12 2Pe 2:15-22