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My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding, See also: Proverbs 22:17 Proverbs 4:20 Proverbs 2:1that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge. See also: Proverbs 15:7 Malachi 2:6-7 Proverbs 16:23For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, See also: Proverbs 2:16 Proverbs 6:24 Proverbs 7:21but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:26 Psalms 55:21 Psalms 57:4Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. See also: Proverbs 7:27 Proverbs 2:18-19She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it. See also: Proverbs 4:26 Proverbs 5:21 Psalms 16:11Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth. See also: Proverbs 4:1 Proverbs 7:24 Proverbs 22:17-21Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house, See also: Proverbs 7:25 Ephesians 5:11 Proverbs 4:15lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; See also: Nehemiah 13:26 Hosea 4:13-14 Genesis 38:23-26lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house. See also: Hosea 7:9 Proverbs 6:35 Proverbs 31:3You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, See also: Romans 6:21 Revelation 22:15 Hebrews 13:4and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof. See also: Proverbs 12:1 Proverbs 1:22 Proverbs 1:25I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! See also: 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Hebrews 13:7 Luke 15:18I have come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.” See also: Proverbs 13:20 2 Peter 2:10-18 1 Corinthians 10:6-8Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. See also: 1 Corinthians 7:2-5 Hebrews 13:4 Proverbs 5:18-19Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? See also: Psalms 128:3 Psalms 127:3 Deuteronomy 33:28Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. See also: Ecclesiastes 9:9 Malachi 2:14-15 Song of Songs 4:15A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. See also: Song of Songs 7:3 Song of Songs 4:5 Song of Songs 2:9For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? See also: Proverbs 6:24 Proverbs 7:5 Proverbs 23:27-28For the ways of man are before the LORD’s eyes. He examines all his paths. See also: Hebrews 4:13 Proverbs 15:3 Jeremiah 32:19The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. See also: Proverbs 1:31-32 Proverbs 11:5 Hosea 4:11-14He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray. See also: Job 36:12 Job 4:21 2 Peter 2:15-22

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)13 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Proverbs 5:2

Ver. 2. Thoughts. Or wisdom; and act with discretion. --- Mind, &c. is omitted in Heb. and S.

Jer. C. --- By woman all concupiscence, or the inducement to sin, is commonly understood. We must not think of such things. W.

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Proverbs 5:4

Ver. 4. Sword. "It is a crime even to hearken." S. Amb. de Abrah. ii. 11. She seeks thy ruin. v.

5. c. ii. 16.

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Proverbs 5:6

Ver. 6. They. Heb. "if perhaps thou ponder the path of life." Pagn. H. --- Or "she ponders not,"

&c. She walks inconsiderately, and consults only her passions. c. vii. 10. C. ---

No one can depend on her love. M.

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Proverbs 5:9

Ver. 9. Strangers. The world, the flesh, and the devil are such; cruelly devising our ruin. W.

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Proverbs 5:10

Ver. 10. Strength. Or children. v. 16. Gen. xlix. 3. C.

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Proverbs 5:11

Ver. 11. Body. He alludes to a shameful disease, the just punishment of intemperance. Eccli.

xix. 3.

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Proverbs 5:14

Ver. 14. Evil. Infirm and worn out, having lost my reputation, &c. C. --- Though I lived among the faithful, I was under no restraint. M.

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Proverbs 5:15

Ver. 15. Well. Live comfortably on your own property, (Cajet.) with your own wife. C.

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Proverbs 5:16

This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.

Ver. 16. Waters. Mayst thou have a numerous offspring, (v. 10.) and be liberal.

Many copies of the Sept. &c. have a negation, with Aquila, "let not thy," &c. (C.) though it my be read with and interrogation, "are the waters of thy fountain to be?" &c. De Dieu. --- By not means. Origen (in Num. xii.) acknowledges both readings. C. --- Good instructions must be given to those who are well disposed, but not to scoffers, or obstinate infidels. W. --- Husbands are exhorted to be content with their own wives, (v. 15. 20.) so that the negative particle seems to be here wanting, as it is, c. vi. 17. in MS. 60, (Kennicott) and c. xiv. 33. Sept. &c. Capellus.

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Proverbs 5:17

Ver. 17. Thee. Stick to thy own wife. In a moral sense, let those who instruct others, take care not to neglect themselves.

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Proverbs 5:18

Ver. 18. Vein. Thou shalt have a numerous progeny. Ps. lxvii. 28. Is. xlviii. 1. C.

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Proverbs 5:19

Ver. 19. Love. This is spoken by way of permission, and to withdraw people from unlawful connections. Eccle. ii. 1. and 1 Cor. vii. 29. C.

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Proverbs 5:22

Ver. 22. Ropes. "Evil habits unrestrained induce a necessity," (S. Aug. Conf.

viii. 5.) though not absolute. H. --- The libertine thinks he can get free as soon as he pleases; not being aware of the chains which he is forging for himself. C.

--- Sin requires punishment. M.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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