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My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
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Verse 1. Words. As dangerous temptations always threaten, the same instructions are frequently inculcated. Worthington.
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Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
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that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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Verse 5. Thine. But another’s. verse 19. Give thy heart to wisdom, that it may be guarded against impure love.
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For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
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Verse 6. Lattice. No glass was used, on account of the great heat. Calmet.
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I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
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Verse 7. Ones. Not in age, but prudence. Menochius.
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passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
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in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
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Verse 10. Attire. Covered with a veil, (Genesis 38:15) though different from that of honest women. Calmet.—The wanton are commonly the most gaudy; nullarum fere pretiosior cultus est quam quarum pudor vilis est. S. Cyp. de Habitu.—Prepared, and so forth Hebrew “guarded,” ( Calmet.) or “subtle of heart.” Prot. “who makes the hearts of youths take flight.” Septuagint Song of Songs 6:4. Bible.
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She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
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Verse 11. Not … quiet. Is not in Hebrew Calmet.—“She is loud and stubborn, her feet abide not in her house.” Prot. Bible.—Chaste women are guarded in their speech, and keep at home. Menochius.
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Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
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So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
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14
“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.
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Verse 14. Prosperity. Or thy welfare, (Corn. a Lap. Tirinus.) so great is my love for thee. Menochius.—Vows. And therefore I have a feast prepared. People might carry home the greatest part of the victim to eat, if they were clean. Leviticus 7:29. Calmet.
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Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
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I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
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Verse 16. Cords. For greater ease, instead of boards, ( Menochius.) or the curtains are hung with precious cords from Egypt. Calmet.
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Verse 17. Aloes. Of Syria, (John 19:39) different from ours. Numbers 34:6. Calmet.
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18
Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
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Verse 18. Inebriated. Prot. “take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.” Bible.—This passion is a sort of intoxication. Menochius.
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For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
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Verse 19. My. Lit. “the man.” Bible.—She speaks thus out of contempt. Calmet.
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20
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
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Verse 20. The day. Septuagint “after many days.” Hebrew “at the day concealed,” or when the people will dwell under tents, (Chal. Calmet.) or “at the new moon,” when it does not appear. Piscat.—He will not return for a long time, so that we need apprehend no danger from him. Menochius.
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21
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
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He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
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Verse 22. Lamb. Prot. “fool to the correction of the stocks,” ( Bible.) or “like a shackle (ábs.) for the chastisement of a fool.” Mont.—Interpreters have read different words. Calmet.—Sinners who have given way to temptations, are as inconsiderate as oxen, or birds which hasten to their own ruin. Worthington.
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Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
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Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,
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for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
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Verse 26. Her. Solomon gave a melancholy proof of this, as well as David, and Amnon. Calmet.
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Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
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Verse 27. Death. There can be no precaution too great. chapter 2:18. Calmet.
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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