Chapter commentary
Proverbs Chapter 5
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Pr 5:1-23.
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Pr 5:1-23.
A warning against the seductive arts of wicked women, enforced by considering the advantages of chastity, and the miserable end of the wicked.
1. This connection of wisdom and understanding is frequent
(Pr 2:2; 3:7);
the first denotes the use of wise means for wise ends; the other, the exercise of a proper discrimination in their discovery.
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2. 留意——或作「觀察」。
保守——持守不息。
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2. regard--or, "observe."
keep--preserve constantly.
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3.（比較 Pr 2:16）。
她誘惑的應許是欺哄人的。
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3. (Compare
Pr 2:16).
Her enticing promises are deceitful.
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4. 她的終局——字面作「她的未來」，指報償，即隨後之事（比較 Ps 37:37; 73:17）。
其性質由與 Pr 5:3 相反的比喻顯明。受迷惑的浪蕩者所受身心之苦，其可怕眾所周知。
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4. her end--literally, "her future," in sense of reward, what follows (compare
Ps 37:37; 73:17).
Its nature is evinced by the use of figures, opposite those of
Pr 5:3.
The physical and moral suffering of the deluded profligate are notoriously terrible.
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5. 腳……腳步——即人生道路終於死亡。
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5. feet . . . , steps--that is, course of life ends in death.
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6. 她的道……知道——有人傾向於譯為「免得她思想生命之道」等；但更佳的理解或許是：「她的道路變化多端，使你無從認識她的真面目，也就無從認識真正的幸福。」
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6. her ways . . . know--Some prefer, "that she may not ponder the path of life," &c.; but perhaps a better sense is, "her ways are varied, so as to prevent your knowledge of her true character, and so of true happiness."
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8, 9. 當避開最微小的試探。
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8, 9. Avoid the slightest temptation.
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9. 你的尊榮——無論由何構成，力量（Pr 3:13）或財富。
你的年歲——因放蕩而被削減。
給殘忍的人——因好色之徒往往變得如此。
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9. thine honour--in whatever consisting, strength
(Pr 3:13)
or wealth.
thy years--by cutting them off in dissipation.
unto the cruel--for such the sensual are apt to become.
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10. 財物——字面作「力量」，或其結果。
勞碌——辛勞所得的果實（Ps 127:2）。
此處或指奴役——作為淫夫當死之罪刑罰的替代（De 22:22）。
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10. wealth--literally, "strength," or the result of it.
labours--the fruit of thy painful exertions
(Ps 127:2).
There may be a reference to slavery, a commuted punishment for death due the adulterer
(De 22:22).
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11. 終久——終局，或報償（比較 Pr 5:4）。
悲歎——因痛苦而哀號。
肉和……身——患不治之症的全人。
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11. at the last--the end, or reward (compare
Pr 5:4).
mourn--roar in pain.
flesh and . . . body--the whole person under incurable disease.
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12-14. 沉淪的罪人徒然哀歎自己忽視警告，並哀歎被帶到公眾羞辱之中的悲慘結局。
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12-14. The ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.
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14. 禍患——指苦難，如 Ge 19:20; 49:15 所述。
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14. evil--for affliction, as in
Ge 19:20; 49:15.
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15-20. 藉比喻，以井、水池與泉源（箴5:15, 18）代表妻子，以水河（箴5:16）代表兒女，勸勉人在合法的婚姻之樂中持守貞潔與知足。在箴5:16中，泉源（複數）更宜指泉水的產物或水，字面作「從泉源所出的」，與「水河」相對應。
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15-20. By figures, in which well, cistern, and fountain
[Pr 5:15, 18]
represent the wife, and rivers of waters
[Pr 5:16]
the children, men are exhorted to constancy and satisfaction in lawful conjugal enjoyments. In
Pr 5:16,
fountains (in the plural) rather denote the produce or waters of a spring, literally, "what is from a spring," and corresponds with "rivers of waters."
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17. 惟獨你自己的——妓女所生的孩子無法確知其父是誰。
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17. only thine own--harlots' children have no known father.
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18. 幼年……所娶的妻——即幼年時所娶。
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18. wife . . . youth--married in youth.
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19. 戀慕……魚鹿——以這些動物眾所皆知的美麗，作為妻子的另一個比喻。
胸——（比較
So 1:13; Eze 23:3, 8).
陶醉——字面作「醉酒」，即完全滿足。
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19. loving . . . roe--other figures for a wife from the well-known beauty of these animals.
breasts--(Compare
So 1:13; Eze 23:3, 8).
ravished--literally, "intoxicated," that is, fully satisfied.
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21. 原因是：神的眼目注視著你。
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21. The reason, God's eye is on you,
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22, 23. 祂必使罪帶來其刑罰。
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22, 23. and He will cause sin to bring its punishment.
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23. 因無訓誡——字面作「缺乏訓誨」，即已拒絕了訓誨（比較
Job 13:18; Heb 11:24).
走差了——字面作「醉酒」。「陶醉」一詞
(Pr 5:19)
此處指刑罰的滿盈。
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23. without instruction--literally, "in want of instruction," having refused it (compare
Job 13:18; Heb 11:24).
go astray--literally, "be drunken." The word "ravished"
(Pr 5:19)
here denotes fulness of punishment.
Pr 5:1-23.
這是一段對淫婦誘惑之術的警告，藉思想貞潔的益處與惡人的悲慘結局加以強化。
1. 智慧 與 聰明 的這種連用是常見的（Pr 2:2; 3:7）；前者指以聰明的方法達致聰明的目的，後者指在發現這些方法時運用正當的辨別力。