Proverbs 5:6
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What does Proverbs 5:6 mean?
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life
Consider and meditate which is the way to get out of her hands
and ways, and escape death, and obtain eternal life; lest those
she has drawn into her wicked course of life should be
religiously inclined, and think of quitting such a course, and
inquire after the way of life and salvation; and be weighing in
their minds which is most eligible, to continue with her whose
feet lead to death, or to take the path of life: to prevent all
this, if possible, her ways are movable:
she appears in different shapes; changes her dress and
habitation; makes use of a thousand arts to ensnare men, to
entangle their affections, and retain them in her nets; she first
puts them upon one thing, and then on another; she leads them
into various mazes and labyrinths of sin, till they have lost all
sense of religion, and sight of the path of life; [that]
thou canst not know [them];
her ways, arts, and devices. Or, "thou canst not know"
F11; that is, the way of life, or how
to get out of her ways into that. Or, "thou knowest not"; where
she goes, whither she leads thee, and what will be the end and
issue of such a course of life. The Targum understands it, and so
some other interpreters, of the harlot herself, paraphrasing the
whole thus;
``in the way of life she walks not; her ways are unstable, and she knows not''the way of life, nor where her ways will end; or, "cares not" F12 what becomes of her. And so, in like manner, the former part of the verse is understood and interpreted, "lest she ponder the path of life" F13; or as others, "she does not ponder the path of life" F14; The ways of the antichristian harlot are with all deceivableness of unrighteousness; and her chief care is to keep persons in ignorance, and from pondering the path of life or true religion, and to retain them in her idolatry, ( 2 Thessalonians 2:9 2 Thessalonians 2:10 ) .
F11 (edt al) "non scires", Cocceius; "non cognosces", Baynus.
F12 "Haud curat", Schultens.
F13 (olpt Np Myyx xra) "iter vitae ne forte libraverit", Schultens.
F14 "Viam vitae non appendit, vel ponderat", Gejerus; so Luther; "iter vitae non expandit", Noldius, p. 249. No. 2008.
