Teks -- Proverbs 5:21-23 (NET)

5:21 For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord’s eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person’s paths. 5:22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin. 5:23 He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

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

Wesley: Pro 5:22 - Holden

He is in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able nor wiling to set himself at liberty.

Wesley: Pro 5:23 - Die

He shall die in his sins.

Wesley: Pro 5:23 - Astray

From the way of life, and from eternal salvation.

JFB: Pro 5:21

The reason, God's eye is on you,

JFB: Pro 5:22-23

And He will cause sin to bring its punishment.

JFB: Pro 5:23 - without instruction

Literally, "in want of instruction," having refused it (compare Job 13:18; Heb 11:24).

JFB: Pro 5:23 - go astray

Literally, "be drunken." The word "ravished" (Pro 5:19) here denotes fulness of punishment.

Clarke: Pro 5:21 - For the ways of a man

For the ways of a man - Whether they are public or private, God sees all the steps thou takest in life.

Clarke: Pro 5:22 - He shall be holden with the cords of his sins

He shall be holden with the cords of his sins - Most people who follow unlawful pleasures, think they can give them up whenever they please; but sin repeated becomes customary; custom soon engenders habit; and habit in the end assumes the form of necessity; the man becomes bound with his own cords, and so is led captive by the devil at his will.

Clarke: Pro 5:23 - He shall die without instruction

He shall die without instruction - This is most likely, and it is a general case; but even these may repent and live.

TSK: Pro 5:21

Pro 15:3; 2Ch 16:9; Job 31:4, Job 34:21; Psa 11:4, Psa 17:3, Psa 139:1-12; Jer 16:17; Jer 17:10, Jer 23:24, Jer 32:19; Hos 7:2; Heb 4:13; Rev 2:18, Rev 2:23

TSK: Pro 5:22 - His // holden // sins

His : Pro 1:18, Pro 1:31, Pro 11:3, Pro 11:5; Psa 7:15, Psa 7:16, Psa 9:15; Jer 2:19; Hos 4:11-14; Gal 6:7, Gal 6:8

holden : Ecc 7:26

sins : Heb. sin, 1Co 5:9, 1Co 5:10; Gal 5:19-21; Eph 5:5, Eph 5:6; Heb 13:4

TSK: Pro 5:23 - shall die // in the

shall die : Pro 10:21, Pro 14:32; Job 4:21, Job 36:12

in the : Pro 14:14; Psa 81:12; 2Pe 2:15-22

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

Poole: Pro 5:21 - Before the eyes of the Lord

Before the eyes of the Lord God sees all thy filthy actions, though done with all possible cunning and secrecy. He taketh an exact account of all their doings, that he may recompense them according to the kinds, degrees, numbers, and aggravations of all their unchaste actions.

Poole: Pro 5:22

In vain doth he think to disentangle himself from his lusts by repenting when he grows in years, and to escape punishments; for he is in perfect bondage to his lusts, and is neither able nor willing to set himself at liberty; and if he do escape the rage of a jealous husband, and the sentence of the magistrate, yet he shall be infallibly overtaken by the righteous judgment of God.

Poole: Pro 5:23 - Without instruction // In the greatness of his folly // Go astray

Without instruction because he neglected instruction. Or, without correction or amendment . He shall die in his sins, and not repent of them, as he designed and hoped to do before his death.

In the greatness of his folly through his stupendous folly, whereby he cheated himself with hopes of repentance or impunity, and exposed himself to endless torments for the momentary pleasures of sinful lusts.

Go astray from God, and from the way of life, and from eternal salvation.

Haydock: Pro 5:22 - Ropes

Ropes. "Evil habits unrestrained induce a necessity," (St. Augustine, Confessions viii. 5.) though not absolute. (Haydock) ---

The libertine thinks he can get free as soon as he pleases; not being aware of the chains which he is forging for himself. (Calmet) ---

Sin requires punishment. (Menochius)

Gill: Pro 5:21 - For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord // and he pondereth all his goings

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord,.... Both good and bad; the ways of a chaste and virtuous man, who cleaves to his own wife and shuns the harlot, which are approved of by the Lord; and the ways of a lewd man, all the impure thoughts, desires, and contrivances of his mind, and all the steps he takes to commit lewdness, and all the filthy actions he is guilty of, these are all open and naked to the omniscient God: the adulterer seeks the twilight, and flatters himself with secrecy, not considering that the eye of God is upon him; there are many, that, were their filthy actions known to men, they would be ashamed of them; and this consideration greatly deters from them, and puts them upon secret ways of committing them; much more should the consideration of the divine omniscience weigh with them to avoid them; which is the argument here made use of;

and he pondereth all his goings; he not only sees them, but takes notice of them, and observes them, and ponders them in his mind, and lays them up there, in order to bring to an account for them hereafter; yea, he weighs them in the balance of justice, and will proportion the punishment unto them, according to the rules of it; when it must go ill with those that follow such lewd practices, Heb 13:4.

Gill: Pro 5:22 - His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself // and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,.... As in a snare or net, as Gersom observes; in which the adulterer is so entangled that he cannot extricate himself; he may fancy that when he grows old his lusts will be weakened, and he shall be able to get clear of them, and have repentance for them, but he will find himself mistaken; he will become but more and more hardened by them and confirmed in them, and will have neither will nor power to repent of them, and shake off those shackles with which he is bound: and it may be understood of the guilt and punishment of his sins; that the horrors of a guilty conscience shall seize him, there will be no need of any others to arrest him, these will do that office; or diseases shall come upon him for his sins, and bring him to the dust of death, and so to everlasting destruction;

and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins; which he has been all his life committing and twisting together, and made as it were cords of, which by constant practice become strong as such; with the guilt of which he is bound as a malefactor, and will be brought to justice, being reserved in these cords, as the angels that sinned in their chains, unto the judgment of the great day; the phrase denotes the strength of sin, the impotency of man to get rid of it, and the sure and inevitable ruin that comes by it.

Gill: Pro 5:23 - He shall die without instruction // and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray

He shall die without instruction,.... Into the evil of sin, and the danger he is in, and so without repentance for it; for instruction is the means of repentance, and productive of it when blessed, Jer 31:19; but it is but just that those who have hated and rejected it in health and life, that when they come to die should have none given them about the evil of sin, the danger of their state, and the way of salvation; or rather "because of instruction" ^z; because they would not bear and receive, but neglected, rejected, and despised it, so Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom; or "without correction" ^a, or discipline and amendment by it;

and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray; being left to the exceeding great folly of his mind, he shall continue to go astray as he has done from God and his good ways, from the precepts of his law, and the rules of his word; going after his own heart's lusts, which will drown him in perdition. This "folly" may be understood either of his fornication and adultery, which is egregious folly; or of his imagining that he should be able to repent of sin when he pleased, and free himself from the bondage of it, and escape the punishment due unto it.