Proverbs 27

Proverbs 27:1

Ponder - Consider thine actions before thou dost them, and see that they agree with the rule. And - Let thine actions be uniformly and constantly good in spite of all temptations.

Proverbs 27:6

The lips - It concerns thee to get and to use discretion, that thou mayest be able to resist those temptations to which thou art exposed.

Proverbs 27:7

But - The effect of that to which she entices men, is destruction.

Proverbs 27:8

Feet - Her manner of life.

Proverbs 27:9

Lest - To prevent thy serious consideration. Moveable - She transforms herself into several shapes, and has a thousand arts to ensnare. Know - Thou canst not discover all her practice.

Proverbs 27:12

Honour - Thy dignity and reputation, the strength of thy body and mind. Years - The flower of thine age. The cruel - To the harlot, who though she pretends love, yet in truth is one of the most cruel creatures in the world, wasting thy estate and body without pity, and damming thy soul for ever.

Proverbs 27:13

Strangers - Not only the strange women themselves, but others who are in league with them. Labors - Wealth gotten by thy labours.

Proverbs 27:17

A moment - In how little a time am I now come into remediless misery! Assembly - And that in the congregation of Israel, where I was taught better things.

Proverbs 27:18

Drink - Content thyself with those delights which God alloweth thee in the sober use of the marriage - bed.

Proverbs 27:19

Fountains - Thy children proceeding from thy wife and from thyself. Fountains are here put for rivers flowing from them. Dispersed - They shall in due time appear abroad to thy comfort, and for the good of others.

Proverbs 27:21

Fountain - Thy wife. Blessed - With children; for barrenness was esteemed a curse among the Israelites.

Proverbs 27:22

Satisfy thee - At all convenient times: for that there may be excess in the marriage - bed is manifest. Ravished - Love her fervently. It is an hyperbolical expression.

Proverbs 27:25

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

Proverbs 27:26

Die - He shall die in his sins. Astray - From the way of life, and from eternal salvation.