Teks -- Proverbs 5:1-2 (NET)

Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil

5:1 My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding, 5:2 in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Pro 5:1

A warning against the seductive arts of wicked women, enforced by considering the advantages of chastity, and the miserable end of the wicked. (Pro. 5:1-23)

This connection of wisdom and understanding is frequent (Pro 2:2; Pro 3:7); the first denotes the use of wise means for wise ends; the other, the exercise of a proper discrimination in their discovery.

JFB: Pro 5:2 - regard

Or, "observe."

JFB: Pro 5:2 - keep

Preserve constantly.

Clarke: Pro 5:1 - Attend unto my wisdom

Attend unto my wisdom - Take the following lessons from my own experience.

TSK: Pro 5:1 - attend // bow

attend : Pro 2:1, Pro 4:1, Pro 4:20; Mat 3:9; Mar 4:23; Rev 2:7, Rev 2:11, Rev 2:17, Rev 2:29, Rev 3:6, Rev 3:13, Rev 3:22

bow : Pro 22:17; Jam 1:19

TSK: Pro 5:2 - thy lips

thy lips : Pro 10:21, Pro 15:2, Pro 15:7, Pro 16:23, Pro 20:15; Psa 45:2, Psa 71:15, Psa 119:13; Son 4:11; Mal 2:6, Mal 2:7

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Pro 5:2 - Regard // That thy lips may keep knowledge

Regard or, keep , i.e. hold fast, as it is in the next clause. Discretion ; spiritual wisdom for the conduct of thy life, as this word is used Pro 1:4 , and elsewhere in this book.

That thy lips may keep knowledge that by wise and pious discourses thou mayst preserve and improve thy wisdom for thine own and others’ good.

Haydock: Pro 5:2 - Thoughts // Mind

Thoughts. Or wisdom; and act with discretion. ---

Mind, &c., is omitted in Hebrew and St. Jerome. (Calmet) ---

By woman all concupiscence, or the inducement to sin, is commonly understood. We must not think of such things. (Worthington)

Gill: Pro 5:1 - My son, attend unto my wisdom // and bow thine ear to my understanding

My son, attend unto my wisdom,.... Not the wisdom of the world or of the flesh, worldly wisdom and carnal policy; but spiritual and evangelical wisdom; such as one that is greater than Solomon has in him, even Christ; "for in him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", Col 2:3; and which he teaches and communicates to others, even all proper instructions for conduct in life: the Gospel, and each of the doctrines of it, which are "the wisdom of God in a mystery", 1Co 2:7, these every child of God, and disciple of Christ, ought carefully and diligently to attend unto;

and bow thine ear to my understanding: listen attentively to those things which I have, and give an understanding of, even things divine and spiritual; the understanding of which is of the utmost moment and importance.

Gill: Pro 5:2 - That thou mayest regard discretion // and that thy lips may keep knowledge

That thou mayest regard discretion,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the Vulgate Latin version is, "that thou mayest keep the thoughts"; and so Gersom interprets the word; "good thoughts", according to the Septuagint version; the thoughts of the heart are to be observed. A man of spiritual wisdom will take notice of them; evil thoughts, which lead to uncleanness, are to be repressed and kept in; good ones to be cherished and improved; wise and sagacious ones (such the word here used signifies) are to be attended to, as being of great advantage in the various affairs and business of life; and spiritual and evangelical wisdom helps to such thoughts, and directs to the observance and exercise of them;

and that thy lips may keep knowledge; may be able to speak of things worthy to be known, and communicate the knowledge of them to others; by which means useful knowledge will be kept and preserved, and be continued in successive ages; see Mal 2:7; even the knowledge of God and of Christ, and of the Gospel and its doctrines; and which will be a means of preserving men, as from false doctrine, error, and heresy, so from profaneness and immorality; and particularly from the adulterous woman, next described.