geneva - Proverbs:4-7

geneva@Proverbs:4:1 @ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a (note:)He speaks this as a preacher and minister which is as a father to the people, (Pro_2:8).(:note) father, and attend to know understanding.

geneva@Proverbs:4:2 @ For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

geneva@Proverbs:4:3 @ For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

geneva@Proverbs:4:4 @ He (note:)Meaning, David his father.(:note) taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

geneva@Proverbs:4:5 @ Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:4:6 @ Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

geneva@Proverbs:4:7 @

geneva@Proverbs:4:8 @ Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.

geneva@Proverbs:4:9 @ She shal giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shal giue thee a crowne of glorie.

geneva@Proverbs:4:10 @ Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

geneva@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have (note:)Solomon declares what care his father had to bring him up in the true fear of God: for this was David's protest.(:note) taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

geneva@Proverbs:4:12 @ When thou goest, thy steps shall not be (note:)You will walk at liberty without offence.(:note) straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

geneva@Proverbs:4:13 @ Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.

geneva@Proverbs:4:14 @ Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

geneva@Proverbs:4:15 @ Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.

geneva@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they (note:)Meaning that to do evil is more proper and natural to the wicked than to sleep, eat or drink.(:note) sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

geneva@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of (note:)Gotten my wicked means and cruel oppression.(:note) wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

geneva@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that (note:)Signifying that the godly increase daily in knowledge and perfection, till they come to full persecution, which is when the are joined to their head in the heavens.(:note) shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

geneva@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

geneva@Proverbs:4:20 @ My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

geneva@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

geneva@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their (note:)That is, they will have health of body: under which all other blessings promised in the law are contained.(:note) flesh.

geneva@Proverbs:4:23 @ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of (note:)For as the heart is either pure or corrupt, so is the whole course of man's life.(:note) life.

geneva@Proverbs:4:24 @ Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

geneva@Proverbs:4:25 @ Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.

geneva@Proverbs:4:26 @

geneva@Proverbs:4:27 @ Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.

geneva@Proverbs:5:1 @ My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:5:2 @ That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

geneva@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips (note:)That is, a harlot who gives herself to someone other than her husband.(:note) of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than By oil and honey he means flattering and crafty enticements. oil:

geneva@Proverbs:5:4 @ But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

geneva@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her (note:)All her doings lead to destruction.(:note) feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

geneva@Proverbs:5:6 @ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are (note:)She has always new means to allure to wickedness.(:note) moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].

geneva@Proverbs:5:7 @ Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:5:8 @ Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

geneva@Proverbs:5:9 @ Lest thou give thine (note:)That is, your strength and goods to her who will have no pity on you as is read of Samson and the prodigal son.(:note) honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

geneva@Proverbs:5:10 @ Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy (note:)The goods gotten by your travel.(:note) labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

geneva@Proverbs:5:11 @ And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

geneva@Proverbs:5:12 @ And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

geneva@Proverbs:5:13 @ And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

geneva@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and (note:)Although I was faithfully instructed in the truth, yet I almost fell to utter shame and destruction nonetheless, by good bringing up in the assembly of the godly.(:note) assembly.

geneva@Proverbs:5:15 @ Drink waters out of (note:)He teaches us sobriety exhorting us to live of our own labours and to be beneficial to the godly who want.(:note) thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

geneva@Proverbs:5:16 @ Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

geneva@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be only (note:)Distribute them not to the wicked and infidels, but reserve them for yourself, your family and them who are of the household of faith.(:note) thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let thy (note:)Your children who will come from you in great abundance showing that God blesses marriage and curses whoredom.(:note) fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy Who you married in your youth. youth.

geneva@Proverbs:5:19 @ Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

geneva@Proverbs:5:20 @ For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

geneva@Proverbs:5:21 @ For the ways of man [are] before the (note:)He declares that unless a man joins to his wife both in heart and in outward conversation, he will not escape the judgments of God.(:note) eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

geneva@Proverbs:5:22 @ His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.

geneva@Proverbs:5:23 @ He shall (note:)Because he will not give ear to God's word and be admonished.(:note) die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

geneva@Proverbs:6:1 @ My sonne, if thou be surety for thy neighbour, and hast striken hands with the stranger,

geneva@Proverbs:6:2 @ Thou art (note:)He forbids us not to become surety one for another, according to the rule of charity, but that we consider for whom and after what sort, so that the creditor may not be defrauded.(:note) snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:3 @ Doe this nowe, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe: seeing thou art come into the hande of thy neighbour, goe, and humble thy selfe, and sollicite thy friends.

geneva@Proverbs:6:4 @ Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

geneva@Proverbs:6:5 @ Deliuer thy selfe as a doe from the hande of the hunter, and as a birde from the hande of the fouler.

geneva@Proverbs:6:6 @ Go to the (note:)If the word of God cannot instruct you, learn from the little ant to labour for yourself and not to burden others.(:note) ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

geneva@Proverbs:6:7 @ For shee hauing no guide, gouernour, nor ruler,

geneva@Proverbs:6:8 @ Prepareth her meat in the sommer, & gathereth her foode in haruest.

geneva@Proverbs:6:9 @ Howe long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggarde? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?

geneva@Proverbs:6:10 @ [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, (note:)He expresses the nature of the sluggards, who though they sleep long, yet never have enough, but always seek opportunity for more.(:note) a little folding of the hands to sleep:

geneva@Proverbs:6:11 @ So shall thy poverty come as one that (note:)That is, suddenly, and when you do not look for it.(:note) travelleth, and thy want as It will come in such sort, as you are not able to resist it. an armed man.

geneva@Proverbs:6:12 @ A naughty person, (note:)He shows to what inconvenience the idle persons and sluggards come, by calling them unthrifty, or the men of Belial, and slanderous.(:note) a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:6:13 @ He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he (note:)Thus all his gesture tends to wickedness,(:note) teacheth with his fingers;

geneva@Proverbs:6:14 @ Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.

geneva@Proverbs:6:15 @ Therefore shall his destruction come speedily: hee shall be destroyed suddenly without recouerie.

geneva@Proverbs:6:16 @ These sixe things doeth the Lorde hate: yea, his soule abhorreth seuen:

geneva@Proverbs:6:17 @ The hautie eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood,

geneva@Proverbs:6:18 @ An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, (note:)Meaning, the raging affections, which carry a man away in such sort that he cannot tell what he does.(:note) feet that be swift in running to mischief,

geneva@Proverbs:6:19 @ A false witnesse that speaketh lyes, and him that rayseth vp contentions among brethren.

geneva@Proverbs:6:20 @ My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not thy mothers instruction.

geneva@Proverbs:6:21 @ Bind them continually upon thine (note:)(Pro_3:3).(:note) heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.

geneva@Proverbs:6:22 @ It shall leade thee, when thou walkest: it shall watch for thee, when thou sleepest, and when thou wakest, it shall talke with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:6:23 @ For the (note:)By the commandment, he means the word of God; and by the instruction, the preaching and declaration of the same, which is committed to the Church.(:note) commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and And reprehensions when the word is preached bring us to life. reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:

geneva@Proverbs:6:24 @ To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

geneva@Proverbs:6:25 @ Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her (note:)With her wanton looks and gesture.(:note) eyelids.

geneva@Proverbs:6:26 @ For because of the whorish woman a man is brought to a morsell of bread, and a woman wil hunt for the precious life of a man.

geneva@Proverbs:6:27 @

geneva@Proverbs:6:28 @ Or can a man go vpon coales, and his feete not be burnt?

geneva@Proverbs:6:29 @ So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife, shall not be innocent, whosoeuer toucheth her.

geneva@Proverbs:6:30 @ [Men] do not (note:)He does not reprove theft, showing that it is not as abominable as whoredom, for theft can be restored, but adultery is permanent, and death by the law of God.(:note) despise a thief, if he stealeth to satisfy his Meaning, for necessity. soul when he is hungry;

geneva@Proverbs:6:31 @ But if he be founde, he shall restore seuen folde, or he shall giue all the substance of his house.

geneva@Proverbs:6:32 @ But he that committeth adulterie with a woman, he is destitute of vnderstanding: he that doeth it, destroyeth his owne soule.

geneva@Proverbs:6:33 @ A (note:)That is, death appointed by the Law.(:note) wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

geneva@Proverbs:6:34 @ For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not (note:)He shows that man by nature seeks the death of he that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God's law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adultery.(:note) spare in the day of vengeance.

geneva@Proverbs:6:35 @ He cannot beare the sight of any raunsome: neither will he consent, though thou augment the giftes.

geneva@Proverbs:7:1 @ My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.

geneva@Proverbs:7:2 @ Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the (note:)By this diversity of words, he means that nothing should be so dear to us as the word of God, nor that we look on anything more nor mind anything so much.(:note) apple of thy eye.

geneva@Proverbs:7:3 @ Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

geneva@Proverbs:7:4 @ Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,

geneva@Proverbs:7:5 @ That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

geneva@Proverbs:7:6 @

geneva@Proverbs:7:7 @ And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

geneva@Proverbs:7:8 @ Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

geneva@Proverbs:7:9 @ In the twilight, in the evening, in the (note:)He shows that there was almost no one so impudent that they were not afraid to be seen, their consciences accusing them and causing them to seek the night to cover their filthiness.(:note) black and dark night:

geneva@Proverbs:7:10 @ And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

geneva@Proverbs:7:11 @ (She (note:)He describes certain conditions, which are peculiar to harlots.(:note) [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

geneva@Proverbs:7:12 @ Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

geneva@Proverbs:7:13 @ So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

geneva@Proverbs:7:14 @ [I have] (note:)Because in peace offerings a portion is returned to them that offered, she shows him that she has meat at home to make good cheer with or else she would use some cloak of holiness till she had gotten him in her snares.(:note) peace offerings with me; this Which declares that harlots outwardly will seem holy and religious: both because they may better deceive others, and also thinking to observe ceremonies and offerings to make satisfaction for their sins. day have I paid my vows.

geneva@Proverbs:7:15 @ Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

geneva@Proverbs:7:16 @ I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.

geneva@Proverbs:7:17 @ I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

geneva@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

geneva@Proverbs:7:19 @ For mine husbande is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.

geneva@Proverbs:7:20 @ He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.

geneva@Proverbs:7:21 @ Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

geneva@Proverbs:7:22 @ He goeth after her quickly, as an (note:)Which thinking he goes to the pasture goes willingly to his own destruction.(:note) ox goeth to the slaughter, or Who goes cheerfully, not knowing that he will be chastised. as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

geneva@Proverbs:7:23 @ Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.

geneva@Proverbs:7:24 @ Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.

geneva@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

geneva@Proverbs:7:26 @ For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many (note:)Neither wit nor strength can deliver them who fall into the hands of the harlot.(:note) strong [men] have been slain by her.

geneva@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.

geneva@Proverbs:8:1 @ Doth not (note:)Solomon declares that man is the cause of his own perdition and that he cannot pretend ignorance, for God calls all men by his word and his works to follow virtue and flee from vice.(:note) wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?