Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom, 1-5; In an example of his own experience he shews, 6-9, the cunning of a harlot, 10-21; and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton, 22,23; He dehorteth?? from such wickedness, 24-27;

My son 1:8 3:1

keep Lu 8:15 11:28 Joh 14:23 15:20 Re 1:3 22:9

lay 2:1-7 10:14 De 11:28 Job 22:22

2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

keep 4:13 Le 18:5 Isa 55:3 Joh 12:49,50 14:21 15:14 1Jo 2:3,4 5:1-3 Re 22:14

as the
As the pupil of the eye, the hole or the opening of the uveous coat, or iris, through which the rays of light pass, and falling upon the retina, there depict every object in its natural colour, as upon a piece of white paper. Now the pupil of the eye is essentially necessary to sight, and easily injured, it is not only, in common with other parts, deeply entrenched in the skull, ramparted with the forehead and cheek bones, defended by the eyebrows, eyelids and eyelashes and placed so as to be best protected by the hands, but, by a wonderful mechanism, is contracted or dilated by the muscular power of the iris, without which an excess of light would cause instant blindness. De 32:10 Ps 17:8 Zec 2:8

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

3:3 6:21 De 6:8,9 11:18-20 Isa 30:8 Jer 17:1 31:33 2Co 3:3

4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

say 2:2-4 4:6-8 11:18-20 Isa 30:8 Jer 17:1 31:33 2Co 3:3

5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

2:16 5:3 6:24

6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

the simple 1:4,22,32 8:5 14:15,18 19:25 22:3 27:12 Ps 19:7 119:130 Ro 16:18,19

the youths 6:32 9:4,16 10:13 12:11 19:2 24:30 Jer 4:22 Mt 15:16

7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

4:14,15 5:8 Jud 16:1 2Sa 11:2,3 1Co 6:18 2Ti 2:22 Jude 1:23

9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

the twilight Ge 39:11 Job 24:13-15 Ro 13:12-14 Eph 5:11

evening of the day Ex 12:6

10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

the attire Ge 38:14,15 2Ki 9:22,30 Isa 3:16-24 23:16 Jer 4:30 1Ti 2:9 Re 17:3-5

subtil Ge 3:1 2Co 11:2,3

11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

loud 9:13 25:24 27:14,15 31:10-31

her feet Ge 18:9 1Ti 5:13,14 Tit 2:5

12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

9:14 23:28 Jer 2:20,33,36 3:2 Eze 16:24,25,31 Re 18:3,23

13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

she Ge 39:7,12 Nu 25:1,6-8 31:16 Eze 16:33 Re 2:20

with an impudent face said or she strengthened her face and said; Isa 50:7 Eze 2:4,6 3:7-9

14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

I have peace offerings with me or peace offerings are upon me; 15:8 17:1 21:27 Le 7:15 De 12:6,7

this 2Sa 15:7-9 1Ki 21:9,10 Joh 18:28

15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

decked So 1:16 3:7-10 Re 2:22

fine 1Ki 10:28 Isa 19:9 Eze 27:7

17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

perfumed So 3:6 Isa 57:7-9

with Ps 45:8 So 4:13,14

18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

the good man Mt 20:11 24:43 Lu 12:39

he Mt 24:48 Mr 13:34-36 Lu 12:45,46

20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

with him or in his hand. The day appointed or the new moon.

21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

with her 7:5 5:3 Jud 16:15-17 Ps 12:2

forced 1Sa 28:23 2Ki 4:8 Lu 14:23 24:29 Ac 16:15 2Co 5:14

22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

straightway suddenly as an Ac 14:13

as a: Dr. Grey making a slight alteration in the text, renders, 'as a dog to the chain, and as a deer, till a dart strike through his liver and Dr. Hunt 'Or as a hart boundeth into the toils, till a dart strike through his liver' The LXX Chaldee, Syriac and Arabic, concur in this interpretation. The circumstance of the dart, as applied to the deer, is beautiful and proper, which otherwise we are at a loss to dispose of; and this creature, of all others, was the most proper to be noticed on this occasion; for the usual representation which the Egyptians made of a man overthrown by flattery and fair speeches was the picture of a heart captivated and ensnared by the sound of music

the correction Job 13:27 Jer 20:2 Ac 16:24

23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

a dart Nu 25:8,9

as a bird 1:17 Ec 9:12

knoweth 9:18

24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

O 4:1 5:7 8:32,33 1Co 4:14,15 Ga 4:19 1Jo 2:1

25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

thine 4:14,15 5:8 6:25 23:31-33 Mt 5:28

go 5:23 Ps 119:176 Isa 53:6

26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

6:33 Jud 16:21 2Sa 3:6-8,27 12:9-11 1Ki 11:1,2 Ne 13:26 1Co 10:8 2Co 12:21 1Pe 2:11

27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

2:18,19 5:5 9:18 Ec 7:26