Proverbs 5:6
She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life. She walks down a crooked path, and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 119:59I have thought about my behavior, and I have decided to return to obeying ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
Proverbs 5:21I say that because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows where we are going on the roads that we walk on.
Proverbs 7:10Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him. She was dressed ◄seductively/like a prostitute►, wanting to persuade him to sleep with her.
Proverbs 30:20This is what a woman who ◄is not faithful to/does not have sex only with► her husband does: She commits adultery [EUP], and then bathes and says, “I have not done anything that is wrong!”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →